Jordan’s Court of Cassation on Sunday (March 25th) upheld a ruling sentencing one man to death and three to life in jail, while acquitting another, in a trial known as the al-Rukban case, the Jordanian news agency, Petra, reported.
In June 2016, a car bomb attack on an army post near al-Rukban camp killed seven Jordanian soldiers and injured 11, prompting the closure of the kingdom’s northern and north-eastern borders, which have remained closed since.
In December, the State Security Court (SSC) issued a death sentence against the main defendant, who confessed to recruiting the other four for the "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria" (ISIS) and assigning them to carry out the attack.
He said he had tasked them with collecting intelligence information and obtaining photos of the targeted site, according to Petra.
The SSC also issued a life sentence with hard labour to three defendants.
One defendant was found not guilty of all terror-related charges, but was handed a two-year jail sentence for possessing narcotics for purposes of trafficking and entering the kingdom illegally.
