A Jordanian court has sentenced four men to jail on charges of membership in the ISIL terrorist group and promoting the ISIL group on social media networks.
On Monday, the state security court in the capital, Amman, sentenced two of the men to five years in prison each for ISIL membership, and the other two were sentenced to three years each for “spreading the ideology of a terrorist group on the Internet.”
The four Jordanians were arrested in August and put on trial last week.
The report comes as former Jordanian prime minister, Marouf al-Bakhit, has said that hundreds of Jordanians have joined the ranks of ISIL Takfiri terrorists fighting against the governments in Iraq and Syria.
Some 1,300 Jordanians have so far joined the militants, out of whom more than 200 have been killed, Bakhit said in a speech in Amman on October 19.
The former Jordanian premier also estimated that there are between 2,000 and 4,000 Jordanians active in the Takfiri stream.
The ISIL terrorists currently control large swathes of territory across Syria and Iraq. They have committed terrible atrocities in both countries, including mass executions and beheading of local residents as well as foreign nationals.
Meanwhile, some Jordanian sources have suggested that foreign-sponsored militants operating inside Syria received training to use light and heavy weapons with the help of the US government at a secret base in Jordan back in 2012.
