Abbas Hamadei, a Lebanese sentenced in Germany to 13 years in jail for terrorist acts, is expected to be released and deported from Germany next summer, seven years ahead of schedule, the German Press Agency reported.
The planned release is reportedly part of a deal worked out last year to secure the release of two Germans who had been held hostage for three years in Lebanon and were released last summer, the German agency said.
Officials sources have not neither confirmed nor denied the report. But sources in Bonn had made clear several times before that Hamadei could expect some kind of preferential treatment.
Abbas Hamadei was imprisoned for his role in the kidnapping of two other Germans in an attempt to free his brother Mohammed.
Mohammed Hamadei is serving a life jail sentence for the June 1985 hijacking of a TWA plane to Beirut and the murder of one of its passengers, U.S. Navy diver Robert Stetham.
According to the German news agency, there are no plans to release Mohammed Hamadei.
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