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File photo: Anti Hezbollah cleric Ahmad al-Assir R and singer Fadel Shaker,
Beirut, Lebanon – Lebanon’s Military Tribunal has sentenced famed Lebanese singer-turned radical Fadel Shaker to 22 years in prison for providing financial and logistical support to a “terrorist” group led by hardline Muslim leader Ahmed al-Assir.
Shaker’s sentence, handed down in absentia on Wednesday, includes 15 years’ prison with hard labour for “involvement in terrorist acts committed by terrorists, with his knowledge of the matter by providing logistical services to them,” Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported.
The court also handed down an additional seven years’ prison for Shaker’s financing of al-Assir’s ragtag armed group. Shaker had paid for weapons and ammunition for the group.
December 17, 2020 at 1:40 pm | Published in: Lebanon, Middle East, News
Lebanese singer Fadel Shaker in Abu Dhabi, UAE late on 4 December 2009 [IBRAHIM ADAWI/AFP/Getty Images] December 17, 2020 at 1:40 pm
A Lebanese military court has sentenced famous artist-turned fugitive Fadel Shaker to 22 years imprisonment with hard labour. According to the official
National News Agency, two rulings were issued in absentia.
The first sentence originally handed down in 2017 for 15 years was for knowingly providing logistic support for terrorist acts and another seven years was added for financing the jihadist group of Salafi preacher Ahmad Al-Assir, who were responsible for killing 18 Lebanese soldiers in the southern city of Sidon during clashes in 2013 following the spill-over of violence from the conflict in neighbouring Syria.