UAE hands death to 4 for joining Daesh

ABU DHABI: A top UAE court on Sunday sentenced four Emiratis to death after convicting them of joining Daesh in Syria.
The four, who were tried in absentia, are part of a group of 11 defendants accused of “joining Daesh in an Arab country,” the official WAM news agency said.
Local newspapers said that the group had traveled to Syria.
They were also charged with “promoting” Daesh online, helping to finance the group and insulting UAE leaders, WAM said.
Three other Emiratis, a Bahraini, a Mauritanian and a Syrian were given jail sentences.
In another case, the same court jailed three Arabs for 10 years each after convicting them of ties to the Shiite Houthi rebels in Yemen, WAM said on Sunday.
It acquitted three others for lack of evidence against them, it added.