Six terror suspects get jail, travel bans

A special criminal court in Riyadh has sentenced six terror suspects to varying prison terms and travel bans, with one getting a fine of SR 5,000.
The court jailed for nine years each two of the three suspects involved in a plot to murder the chief of the intelligence department in the Eastern Province. They were also accused of promoting a deviant ideology and going to Afghanistan to meet the chief of Al-Qaeda.
The third suspect involved in the plot was sentenced to seven years imprisonment. The three were also alleged to have adopted takfiri and anti-government views.
The court agreed with the prosecution that one accused was guilty of collecting funds to finance terror plots, instigating youths to go to Iraq to join militants there, and possession of ammunition for unlicensed guns. The court handed him four years jail time. The charges against him included attempts to distribute CDs illustrating how to carry out suicide attacks.
Another suspect was handed a fine of SR 5,000 for handing over his personal identity card to a terror suspect and possessing CDs on the activities of terrorist operations in Chechnya.


Another man was given three years for hiding information about some youths who went to join terrorists in Afghanistan and for possessing illegal weapons.