UAE jails Filipino for 10 yrs for joining IS
A man from the Philippines has been sentenced to 10 years in jail in the United Arab Emirates for being a member of Islamic State and promoting its ideology on social media, Emirati media reported yesterday. State news agency WAM identified the defendant as a 35-year-old Asian man and said he was also fined 2 million dirhams ($544,543) by the Abu Dhabi Court of Appeal and will be deported after serving his sentence.
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