AMMAN, Jordan — A Jordanian court sentences two brothers to death on Sunday in connection with a 2016 attack claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group, overturning a life sentence handed to the men last year.
The shooting attack in Karak, home to one of the region’s largest Crusader castles, killed seven policemen and two Jordanian civilians as well as a female Canadian tourist, and wounded 34 other people.
The head of the kingdom’s state security court, a military tribunal, orders Khalid al-Majali and Hamza al-Majali to be “hanged to death.”
Jordan’s cassation court, the kingdom’s highest judicial body, reverses a November ruling which sentenced the two to life behind bars.
“The actions of the defendants caused chaos, panic and horror among Jordanians and foreign tourists and threatened the country’s security and stability,” a judicial source tells AFP.
— AFP
Karak castle in Jordan, seen in 2004. (CC BY-SA, Dennis Jarvis, Flickr)
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