Lebanon’s military prosecution on Monday sentenced an activist to three years in prison for “collaborating” with Israel and traveling to the enemy's state, a judicial source said.
Kinda Al-Khatib, who is in her twenties, was arrested in June and charged with entering the occupied Palestinian territories and “collaborating with spies of the Israeli enemy.”
“The military court... issued a ruling imposing a three year prison sentence with hard labor on Kinda Al-Khatib,” said the judicial source, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to comment on the issue, AFP reported.
Prior to her arrest, Khatib on Twitter had criticized Hezbollah.
Her family and activists have denounced her arrest as “political” because of her tweets against those in power.
Lebanon is technically still at war with Israel and forbids its citizens from traveling there.
The Iran-backed Hezbollah fought several wars with Israel, the latest was in 2006.
