Русская версияA US military jury at Guantanamo has sentenced the former driver of
Osama Bin Laden to five-and-half years in prison after convicting
him earlier on terrorism charges.
The court ruling took into
account time already served as a detainee in the US detention camp.
The Pentagon has already indicated it has no plans to release him
after classifying the Yemeni national as an enemy combatant. The
jury found Salim Hamdan guilty of providing material support for
terrorism, but acquitted him on the more serious charge of
conspiring with the al-Qaeda terror network to commit war crimes.
The White House has described the trial as fair, but Hamdan's
defence team have said they will appeal the verdict. The human
rights group Amnesty International has described the US military
commission system as fundamentally flawed and has called for the
tribunals to be abandoned.
(Deutsche Welle)
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