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UAE tweeter jailed over posts on Islamists’ trial: activist

AFP – A United Arab Emirates court on Monday jailed for 10 months the son of one of 94 Islamists being tried over an alleged plot to seize power, after tweets he posted about the mass trial, an activist said.

The Abu Dhabi court of first instance jailed Abdullah al-Hadidi for posting “with malicious intent” details about the trials of the Islamists in the Gulf state’s top court, the activist said in a statement.

Hadidi was arrested on March 21 on charges of publishing “in bad faith false details of the public trial session via the Internet,” Amnesty International said earlier this month.

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