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Monday, April 4, 2016
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Monday, April 4, 2016
UAE sends three Hezbollah backers to prison
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleAn Emirati court has sentenced three Lebanese, including a Canadian dual national, to six months in prison for forming a local affiliate of Iran-backed Hezbollah, local media says.
The supreme federal court convicted the trio of “forming a group for the terrorist Hezbollah (movement) in the country,” Ittihad daily reports, adding that they will be deported after serving their sentences.
They “were found guilty of setting up an office of the militant group in the UAE and carrying out commercial, economic and political activities without licenses,” the daily Gulf News reports.
It names the men as Canadian-Lebanese Suhail Naif Gareeb, 62, and Lebanese nationals Asaad Ameen Qansouh, 66, and Ahmed Ebrahim Qansouh, 30.
— AFP
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