UAE: 30 convicted in Brotherhood trial
Issue 962
- 23 Jan 2014
| 2 minute read
The Federal Supreme Court has sentenced all 30 defendants in a mass trial of Islamists to jail terms ranging from three months to five years. All of those convicted on 21 January were accused of being members of an illegal Muslim Brotherhood cell and of stealing secret information from the security services; rights groups say the charges were vague and the trial politically motivated. It was the second mass trial of Islamists in the UAE in the past year. Indeed, ten of those found guilty in the second trial were Emirati nationals also found guilty in the first, known as the UAE94 trial, which resulted in 69 members of Islamist group Al-Islah being sentenced for threatening to overthrow the government.
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