BEIRUT: Former Information Minister Michel Samaha’s attorney Sakhr al-Hashem Tuesday filed an appeal for a sentence reduction for the pro-Damascus Lebanese official convicted of attempting to carry out terrorist attacks.
Hashem filed the request with the Military Court of Appeals on the basis that the tribunal revoked Samaha's civilian rights, a judicial source told The Daily Star.
The military tribunal has sentenced Samaha to four-and-a-half years in prison for attempting to carry out terrorist attacks and transporting explosives from Syria to Lebanon.
He was found guilty of forming an armed gang and plotting to assassinate political and religious figures.
Hashem has argued that Samaha did not have the criminal intent to carry out terrorist plots in Lebanon.