Two defendants, accused of committing many crimes against the nation and religion, were today sentenced to different terms of imprisonment. They face several accusations, including embracing deviant expiatory thinking that is contradictory to the Quran and Sunnah (prophet Mohammed's sayings and deeds), disobeying the King's instructions of not joining terrorist-led fighting abroad, joining an extremist group inside the country, using the media to support terror cells and provide shelter for some wanted men, financing terror and terrorist operations, taking part in activities that led to the killing of suspect persons to be enemies of their groups, keeping contact with deviant groups inside and outside the country, and calling for killing foreigners residing inside the Kingdom as well as prominent scholars, security officers, investigators, literate men, special emergency forces command and other grave crimes. Accordingly, the first defendant was sentenced to seven years in prison and the other 16, and each given 30 days to appeal.
