בערעור שהוגש על גזר דינם זכו 4 בני משפחת עלאם שהואשמו בריגול למען ישראל,ה4 נידונו בין 5 ל10שנים ע"י בית דין צבאי לבנוני,כאמור לאחר שזכו בערעור ושוחררו חיזבאללה מטיל ספק בתזמון ובמניעים של בית המשפט לערעורים.

Hizbullah criticized on Saturday military tribunal judge Alice Shabtini’s decision to release six convicted Israeli spies, questioning her motives and deeming the incident as a dangerous development, reported the daily An Nahar on Sunday. The Hizbullah-backed al-Manar television station reported: “This is a dangerous precedent seeing as the accused only served a little more than a month of their 5 to 10-year sentences.” It questioned the purpose of the release, the judge’s motives, and the timing of the incident. “Who is she trying to prove herself to seeing as she is one of candidates to head the Higher Judicial Council?” it wondered. Shabtini had released four of the six accused who have been convicted of collaborating with Israel, reported An Nahar. The permanent military tribunal had sentenced them to 10 to 15 years in prison and they have been detained for two years and ten months, it added. The four accused, who are members of the Alam family, won an appeal to reconsider their sentence and they were released, it explained.