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A court in Jordan sentenced 11 people to hard labour for promoting and trying to join terrorist groups, Assabeel newspaper reported yesterday.
Seven others were sentenced to hard labour and fined them 10,000 Jordanian dinars ($14,106) for dealing with drugs. Three defendants were acquitted in the same case.
The suspects, the newspaper said, attempted to smuggle illegal drugs from Jordan to Saudi Arabia in a cache concealed under cereal bags.
In another case, the court sentenced a Syrian drug dealer to ten years of hard labour and fined him 10,000 dinars for attempting to smuggle drugs from Syria to Jordan.
The court also sentenced another suspect to three years of hard labour for promoting the ideology of a terrorist organisation.