A Lebanese military court has sentenced a doctor to 10 years in prison and his brother to death for spying for the Israeli spy agency Mossad.
Doctor Farouq Shuqayr was found quality �for collaborating with the Mossad and providing the intelligence agency with information about the residence of Hezbollah officials and key locations of the group, as well as the Lebanese Army in south Lebanon during the July 2006 war,��The Daily Starnewspaper quoted Brigadier General Khalil Ibrahim, the judge of the court, as saying on Friday.

The court also issued the death penalty for Shuqayr's brother, Zuhair, in absentia for the same charge and �recruiting his sibling to work with the Israeli intelligence.�

An arrest warrant was also issued by the court for Zuhair, who remains at large. The court also stripped both men of their civic rights.

More than 100 people have been arrested in Lebanon on suspicion of collaborating with Mossad since April 2009, including members of the security forces and telecommunications employees.

By Press TV

 

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