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The Lebanese military judiciary sentenced singer Fadl Shaker to 22 years in prison with forced labor for “his association with terrorist acts and his support for an armed group.”
The National Media Agency in Lebanon said on Wednesday that the permanent military tribunal headed by Brigadier General Munir Shehadeh had handed down two absent sentences against Shaker.
He passed the first sentence of 15 years in prison with forced labor and stripping him of his civil rights “for the crime of interfering in acts of terrorism committed by terrorists, knowing the matter by providing logistical services.
The second sentence came with seven years in prison and a fine of five million pounds for “the crime of financing and spending on the armed group Ahmed Al-Assir and securing the price of arms and ammunition for them.”
Shaker, 51, had retired from art in late 2012 and was associated with the Ahmed Al-Assir group, before he reappeared and announced his return to art in 2018.
This is not the first time that Shakir has been sentenced, who was previously sentenced to five years in prison in 2016, as well as 15 years in prison in the “Abra Events” case between the Lebanese army and the Ahmad al-Assir group. in 2017, but was acquitted in 2018.
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