BEIRUT: Military Prosecutor Judge Saqr Saqr filed an appeal Monday against what was viewed as a lenient jail sentence handed down to former Minister Michel Samaha last week, demanding a tougher penalty, judicial sources told The Daily Star.

The appeal, submitted to the Military Court of Cassation, challenges the Military Tribunal’s four-and-a-half-year jail sentence issued against Samaha over smuggling explosives from Syria into Lebanon with the intent to target political and religious figures.

Saqr and Assistant Prosecutor Judge Hani Hajjar urged the Court of Cassation to nullify the sentence and retry Samaha on all charges brought against him in the initial indictment which demanded the death penalty.

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