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REPORT # 21   1/8/2000
As a result of the upcoming summer recess, the Permanent Military Court decided to reduce its weekly sessions from 3 to just one each Wednesday. This decision shall, inevitably, slow down the trials of the SLA members which might not be through before the end of the current year. 35 lawyers attended the 17 military court session held on July 19 to plead for 150 defendants. The court convened at noon and the rulings were not out until the early hours of Thursday. 31 defendants received different sentences ranging from acquittal to fifteen years.

For The Record
Found Innocent
1- Youssef Maroun Fehayli
2- Moussa Sami Hammoud

Prescribtion
3- Ahmad Hassan Srour

Cessation of Legal Measures
4- Sleiman Muhammad Ghader

3 weeks and one million L.L.
5- Ziad Alam El-Dine Abed El-Hay
6- Nazih Hussein Abed El-Hay
7- Tanios Assaad Abou Fadel
8- Sleiman Said Abou Rafeh
9- Nayef Ali abou Rafeh
10- Saadoun Nayef Barakat
11- Adel Ismail Badawi
12- Zouhair Nemr Beydoun (guilty on 2 counts; given a combined sentence)
13- Said Mahmoud Badaw

3 weeks and 2 million L.L.
14- Rabih Kassem Sannan ( guilty on 2 counts; given a combined sentence)

One months and one million .L.L.
15- Muhammad Jawad Fakih

2 months and 500,000 L.L.
16- Hatem Anwar Hajj

6 months and 400,000 L.L.
17- Jirges Rizk Barakat

One year
18- Abed El-Nabi Mahmoud Bazzi

3 years, 400,000 L.L. and 3-year restraint
19- Jassem Anwar Hajj

In Absentia
Two years and two million L.L.
20- Kassem Hassan Srour

Fifteen years
21- Amine AbassEL-Haj
22- Saleh Mehsen Jahir
23- Fares Gerges Kassis
24- Taleb Moussa Sablini
25- Hussein Ali Jaber
26- Muhammad Youssef Bazzi
27- Ali Khalil Hmayed
28- Moussa Ibrahim Hachem