Jeddah: A Saudi court has sentenced 11 people including foreigners to jail on charges including weapons training, bomb-making and ties to Al Qaeda, the SPA state news agency reported. The prison terms handed down by the special court ranged from 18 months to 15 years, it said, without specifying the number or nationalities of foreigners convicted.
Some were convicted of “declaring that it was the duty of young people to go abroad to fight, and permitting suicide attacks, while some had links to people of the deviant doctrine,” a term used to refer to Al Qaeda, SPA said.
Two Shias jailed over protests
JEDDAH: A Saudi special court has sentenced two Shia men to eight and nine years in jail, respectively, for taking part in protests in Eastern Province, SPA state news agency said yesterday. The first defendant was found guilty of joining three protests in the town of Awamiya, in the province’s Shia Al Qatif region, it said.Agencies
