{"id":24200,"date":"2016-03-28T02:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T02:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/uae-sentences-11-to-life-in-jail-over-terror\/"},"modified":"2016-03-28T01:59:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T01:59:45","slug":"uae-sentences-11-to-life-in-jail-over-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/uae-sentences-11-to-life-in-jail-over-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE sentences 11 to life in jail over terror plots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The men are accused of raising funds and financial support to groups such as al-Nusra Front and ISIL.}<\/p>\n<p>A court in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has sentenced 11 people charged with terrorism and raising money for al-Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria to life imprisonment, state news agency WAM reported.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 41 defendants were charged in October with &#8220;possessing firearms and ammunition with the intention of committing terrorist crimes against the country and its security,&#8221; according to WAM.<\/p>\n<p>The statement on Sunday did not specify the suspects&#8217; nationalities. It said two of those given life terms were sentenced in absentia.<\/p>\n<p>Four other defendants were sentenced to six months in prison for the possession of non-explosive weapons.<\/p>\n<p>WAM added that the men also faced prison for &#8220;raising funds and financial support to other terrorist groups such as al-Nusra Front and Daesh in Syria,&#8221; using Arabic names which refer to al-Qaeda&#8217;s branch in the war-torn country and ISIL.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty three of the remaining 41 defendants were sentenced to between five and 15 years behind bars and the rest were acquitted.<\/p>\n<p>ISIL has pledged to overthrow the monarchies of the Gulf and mounted a series of attacks on Shia Muslim mosques and security forces in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-11206 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/62c7d28599aa4368bc2d4478276fd2ec_18.jpg\" alt=\"Four other defendants were sentenced to six months in prison for the possession of non-explosive weapons \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The men are accused of raising funds and financial support to groups such as al-Nusra Front and ISIL.} A court in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has sentenced 11 people charged with terrorism and raising money for al-Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria to life imprisonment, state news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[101],"byline":[2474],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-24200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justice","tag-internationl","byline-al-jazeera"],"bylines":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24200"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=24200"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=24200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}