Karam's 2-Year Jail Sentence Upheld, Civil Rights Restored
The Military Tribunal headed by Judge Alice Shabtini upheld on Tuesday retired General Fayez Karam’s sentence to two years in prison without stripping him of his civil rights.
Karam had been imprisoned on charges of collaborating with Israel.
On September 3, the permanent military court had sentenced Karam, 63, to three years in jail.
It reduced the sentence to two years with hard labor with his civil and political rights being stripped.
Karam, a senior member of the Free Patriotic Movement, was arrested by the Police Intelligence Bureau arrested in August 2010 on suspicion of spying for Israel.
Karam graduated from the military school in 1972 as lieutenant.
He held several leadership positions in the army, including head of the counter-terror and spying bureau.
He remained in his post until the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and his imprisonment in Mazze for five months.
Karam quit the military after then army commander Michel Aoun was exiled to France in 1990.
He returned with him to Lebanon in 2005 when Syria withdrew its troops from the country, ending its 29-year hegemony.
More than 100 people have been arrested on suspicion of spying for the Israeli Mossad since April 2009, including members of the security forces and telecom employees.
Several have since been sentenced to death, including one found guilty of aiding Israel during its devastating 2006 war with Hizbullah.
over 12 years
Special treatment to a major traitor!
over 12 years
Everything in Lebanon is a point view...even spying! Can someone tell me what was he convicted off and why only 2 years imprisonment?
over 12 years
This is the justice system of hizbustan. The real enemy is not israel, as manifested in the joke sentence above, but rather the rest of the lebanese who refuse slavery to the mullas of iran. Anyone who believes otherwise should read their history and their creed. Their real enemies are the sunis, sorry to say that, but that is the fact. Look at hizbustan attitude towards the Syrian revolution and how they are actively involved in killing the suni syrians and you would get the picture. Nasrala nafakh albna with ba7rain this ba7rain that where less than 40 people died and did not offer condolense to the syrian martyrs who protected his people in 06 not a single time! not once!. Another fact, all a sudden now maliki of iraq is a "muqawem - mumani3"!!! what a joke really..maliki who came on US tanks is just as much of a "traitor" as karam above..oh but i forgot.. he is accidentaly shee3i-irani. Again sorry for being blunt, but these are the facts of hypocrisy in the mid east.
over 12 years
Cookie_Monster my fellow Shiite brother in al Bee2at al 7adinat for spies , that's not always the case , also you forget the role politics plays . As you know usually murdering a member of the armed forces in cold blood should get one the death sentence . But the magnificent saint that killed Cpt Hanna was set free because , as SHN always said , " we will cut the hands of anyone who dares touch one of our Jihadists " and I don't know of anyone in our judicial system or anywhere else for that matter that would enjoy going around without any hands . I mean think how hard it would be for someone in a court of law to point a dramatic finger without a hand , they would have to rubber cement a finger to the end of the stump where the hand used to be and that's not very practical or dramatic is it . Anyway keep up the good work and try to cut down on those hashish laced cookies .
over 12 years
Nasrallah, Berri, Hariri, Aoun, Gmayyel, Jumblat, Ja3ja3, Franjiye and every politician who was involved in the civil war should be executed in public and replaced with NONRELIGIOUS, OBJECTIVE, PROFESSIONAL PUBLIC SERVANTS (aka politicians)
over 12 years
Shame on the Lebanese youth that still follow these criminals based on sects and what their parents tell them. Love your country for once and stop supporting these self-centered sectarian ignorant politicians. It is time for Lebanon to have its own Arab spring revolution, a real one!
over 12 years
This guy was convicted if zilch.... nothing...
The ISF when questioned for its proof against Fayez, said they had burned the evidence as it "is protocol to destroy evidence after 1yr".
Since when is evidence destroyed before the accused is charged?
Hey its Lebanon afterall... Anyways he was still given 2 yrs on the "assumption" NOT PROOF that he was a spy.
There used to be saying for weird things happening "Only in America" but i guess its now "Only in Lebanon".
over 12 years
Guys in Lebanon we should expect the unecpected and this is one of them
He betrayed his own country and all he got is a slap on the hand
Good on us
over 12 years
Not enough. he should go for life.
over 12 years
Kuluna, so who is that the Lebanese youth should follow? Hariri and geagea are no alternatives to M8 either. They stink even more.
over 12 years
i heard that one guy was in prison in lebanon for 3 years now because his parents dont have 1M LBP!! so if he was traitor to Israel he would have earned much more and spent in prison much less!!!
The most important thing about our judicial system is that it is fair and gives equal rights to all the people ... this is the dream ... and then in the story above there is the reality!
Why is this guy who is supposed to be a role model in patriotism and defending Lebanon given only a two years sentence while others a death sentence??? A General spying for the Enemy deserves to be killed in a public execution. I wonder what the fpm and hizbelshaytan wuold have done if this spy was from the LF or Mostaqbal?!
What a shameful mark on our judicial system.