Pakistani National
Saudi court awards jail to six Pakistani nationals for sloganeering at Masjid-e-Nabwi
Jeddah: A Saudi court has awarded jail sentences of up to ten years to six Pakistani nationals for their involvement in a sloganeering incident at Masjid-e-Nabwi when Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif and his delegation was visiting the country.
The verdict was announced by a Madina-based court, handing ten years imprisonment to three Pakistani each and eight years jail term each to three other Pakistanis, reports Daily Pakistan.
According to reports, the court also imposed 20,000 Riyals penalty on each convict, while their mobile phones have also been confiscated.
Those, who got ten-year imprisonment, include Anas, Arshad and Mohammad Saleem while Khawaja Luqman, Mohammad Afzal and Ghulam Mohammad have been awarded eight years jail term each, the newspaper reported.
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