Saudi Arabia sentences dozens of Palestinians, Jordanians
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Palestinian movement Hamas condemns the rulings as unjust, saying the detainees caused no harm to the kingdom.
A court in Saudi Arabia has issued sentences against 69 Palestinians and Jordanians, handing jail terms of up to 22 years to some while also acquitting a few on Sunday, over alleged support for the Palestinian Hamas movement, Jordanian rights group the Committee of Jordanian Detainees in Saudi Arabia was quoted as saying by Arabic media. Saudi authorities have yet to comment on Sunday’s verdicts. The group was detained in March 2018 during a wave of arrests by Saudi authorities on a group of long-term Palestinian and Jordanian residents in the kingdom on alleged links with an unnamed “terrorist” group, according to a 2020 report by Human Rights Watch (HRW).
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