UAE court sentences 7 for Hizbullah links

A top Emirati court on Monday (October 31st) sentenced seven people to up to life in prison after convicting them of forming a cell linked to Lebanon's Hizbullah, AFP reported.

One Emirati national and two Lebanese men were given life sentences, while an Iraqi and another Lebanese man were jailed 15 years each, according to state news agency WAM.

An Egyptian woman and another Emirati man were each jailed for 10 years.

The charges included "passing classified information about a governmental department to Lebanon's Hizbullah terrorist (group) and for the benefit of a foreign country", WAM said.

The defendants were accused of passing information about "oil production in one of the emirates as well as maps of oil and gas fields", it said.

They also were charged with "forming and managing an international group belonging to the (Hizbullah) party without a license from the government".

The Arab League and the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) in March declared Hizbullah a terrorist group.

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