Monitoring Desk
AMMAN: A Jordanian court on Wednesday awarded death sentences to three people over charges of links to the Daesh group and staging two bomb blasts.
A total of 11 people were awarded sentences ranging from five years in prison to death penalties in the same case relating to attacks in 2018 that killed six security officials of Jordan.
The court condemned three people to death, including one in absentia, over accusations of “involvement in terrorist activities using explosives and weapons that led to the death of one person.”
The remaining convicts were awarded sentences ranging from five to 20 years in prison.
Three other people, including two women, were acquitted and released after the court order.
Convicts were involved terror activities in Jordan
According to the indictment, the 11 convicted people had “shared news about Daesh group… and all agreed that this terrorist group works to apply God’s law.”
They were also found of forming “a criminal gang aiming to undermine the security and stability of Jordan… and undertaking armed terrorist operations” in the kingdom.
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These people had planned to target security forces’ buses and an intelligence building, and police patrols, the indictment stated.
