Jordan court sentences suspects in rocket, drone plots targeting national security
AMMAN: Jordan’s State Security Court on Wednesday handed down prison sentences to several defendants convicted in cases linked to plots to manufacture rockets and drones for use inside the country.
The cases are related to arrests announced by Jordan’s security services in April, when 16 people were detained for allegedly planning attacks aimed at destabilizing the kingdom.
The defendants were found guilty of manufacturing weapons for illegal use and of acts that endangered public safety and national security, according to court documents.
In the missile manufacturing case, defendants Abdullah Hisham and Moaz Ghanem were sentenced to 15 years of temporary hard labor, while a third defendant, Mohsen Ghanem, received a sentence of seven and a half years.
