Jordan sentences man to death over ISIS affiliation

A Jordanian military court on Monday (May 14th) sentenced a man to death and six others to lengthy prison sentences for belonging to the "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria" (ISIS), AFP reported.

The man sentenced to death had been found guilty of "planning and executing terrorist acts in 2016 inside Jordanian territory targeting alcohol shops", judicial sources said.

The court sentenced five other men to 15 years' hard labour and another to 10 years' hard labour.

All were found guilty of committing terrorist acts, manufacturing flammable and incendiary materials for illicit use, promoting the ideas of a terrorist group, and attempting to join a terrorist group.

The seven convicts, aged between 20 and 30, promoted ISIS on social media and often met at the home of the man sentenced to death, the indictment said.

The group torched a number of stores before security agencies arrested six of them in February.

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