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UAE jails 2 Lebanese, one Lebanese-Canadian for six months for Hezbollah links

Published 2016-04-04, 03:55 p/m
© Reuters. UAE jails 2 Lebanese, one Lebanese-Canadian for six months for Hezbollah links

DUBAI, April 4 (Reuters) - A United Arab Emirates court
sentenced two Lebanese nationals and a Lebanese-Canadian citizen
to six months in jail followed by expulsion for setting up a
group affiliated to the Lebanese Shi'ite militant group
Hezbollah, local media said on Monday.
The state news agency WAM did not identify the three but
said they had set up a group of "international nature" linked to
Hezbollah without a license.
The English language Gulf News said the three, a Canadian
Lebanese and two Lebanese nationals aged 62, 66 and 30, were
convicted of setting up an office for Hezbollah and carrying out
commercial, economic and political activities without licences.
The court said the charges date back to before October 2014.
The UAE in November 2014 published a list of groups the cabinet
had designated as terrorist organisations, including two
affiliates of Hezbollah group in the Gulf.
In February, the UAE along with Saudi Arabia, Bahrain,
Qatar, Oman and Kuwait - all U.S.-allied Sunni Muslim states -
declared the Iran-backed Hezbollah a terrorist organisation and
warned any citizen or expatriate against any links to it.
Hezbollah has backed the government side in Syria's civil
war while Sunni Gulf Arab states have supported rebels bent on
toppling President Bashar al-Assad.

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