A military appeals court in Beirut upheld a death sentence...

A military appeals court in Beirut upheld a death sentence against a Lebanese man convicted of shooting and killing three soldiers, judicial officials.
It was 25-year-old Badieh Hamadeh's final appeal, the officials said. Hamadeh, with a bullet wound in his shoulder, had taken refuge in Ein el-Hilweh, a notoriously lawless refugee camp outside the southern port city of Sidon, after a July 11, 2002 shootout that left dead three soldiers who were trying to arrest him on suspicion of involvement in bombings of liquor stores in Sidon and his links to Islamic groups in Palestinian refugee camps.
A Palestinian militant group in Ein el-Hilweh delivered Hamadeh to the Lebanese army five days after the shooting. He was first convicted and sentenced by a military tribunal in September 2002.
Lebanese authorities guard the camp's gates but do not enter Ein el-Hilweh, home to 75,000 people and the hiding place for several Palestinians wanted by police. It is the largest of 13 refugee camps in Lebanon, with about 350,000 residents.
In the same case, Hamadeh's fiancee Suheir Mahmoud Saeed, a Palestinian, was sentenced in September 2002 to 15 years in prison at hard labour and her mother Naifeh Qanwan to life in prison at hard labour for helping Hamadeh. The appeals court reduced Saeed's sentence to five years and her mother's to seven.