An Emirati court Wednesday sentences a Lebanese man to life imprisonment and two compatriots to 10 years in prison on charges of planning attacks for the Lebanese group Hezbollah, Amnesty said.
Amnesty International says five other Lebanese defendants, all of them Shiite Muslims, were acquitted of the charge of planning to carry out attacks for the Iran-backed Shiite terror group.
“The absence of basic requirements of a fair trial, such as having access to a lawyer, strips today’s verdict of any reliability or credibility,” says Lynn Maalouf, Amnesty’s Middle East research head.
“The eight men were held in solitary confinement for over a year — this in itself can amount to torture. They were denied access to lawyers during the pre-trial interrogation,” she says in a statement.
The accused were residents of the United Arab Emirates for more than 15 years, seven of them as employees of Dubai-based airline Emirates.
— AFP
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