A 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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