A court in Abu Dhabi on Sunday sentences to death an Emirati convicted in absentia for having joined both the Islamic State group and Al-Qaeda’s branch in Syria, a newspaper reports.
The Federal Supreme Court of the United Arab Emirates also found Khalfan Sultan al-Suwaidi guilty of recruiting fighters for IS and the Qaeda-affiliated Al-Nusra Front, Gulf News reports on its website.
Suwaidi, whose current whereabouts remain unknown, would be granted a retrial if he appears in court, based on UAE law, according to the daily.
The top court in the UAE also sentences two other Emiratis, Fares Abdulaziz and Mohammed Awad, to seven years in prison each after convicting them of having joined “terror groups in Syria.”
A third defendant is handed a three-year prison sentence after being convicted on similar charges, the daily says.
— AFP
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