A United Arab Emirates high court jailed five Emiratis and an Afghan for up to four years on terrorism-related charges of funnelling funds to the Taliban in Afghanistan, a UAE newspaper reported Wednesday. The men were arrested in 2008 accused of sending money to the Taliban and trying to set up an organisation to enforce a strict code of Islam, the Gulf News reported on its web site. Two of the men, Rashid Dawood and Abdullah Hassan, were sentenced to four years in jail, while four others including the Afghan national, were jailed for three years. The group had argued before the Federal Supreme Court in Abu Dhabi that they had been coerced into signing confessions, the paper said. Two other Emirati men were acquitted in the case.
