A top court in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday sentenced four Emiratis to death after convicting them of joining ISIS in Syria, AFP reports.
The four, who are being tried in absentia, are part of a group of 11 defendants accused of "joining the terrorist Daesh group in an Arab country," the official WAM news agency said, using an Arabic acronym for ISIS.
Local newspapers said that the group had traveled to Syria.
They were also charged with "promoting" ISIS online, helping to finance the group and insulting UAE leaders, WAM said.
Three other Emiratis, a Bahraini, a Mauritanian, and a Syrian were handed jail sentences of between three and 10 years, the local Gulf News daily reported. Another Emirati was acquitted in the case.
Abu Dhabi's Federal Supreme Court does not allow international media access to such trials.