Former pop star turned militant appears in Beirut court after 12 years on the run
BEIRUT: A Lebanese pop star turned Islamist militant who turned himself in this month after 12 years on the run appeared in court Tuesday in Beirut for the first time.
Fadel Shaker had been hiding out in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh since bloody street clashes erupted between Sunni Muslim militants and the Lebanese army in June 2013 in the coastal city of Sidon.
He was tried in absentia and sentenced to 22 years in prison in 2020 for providing support to a “terrorist group.”
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