Ma'an -- A Palestinian military court in the West Bank city of Hebron convicted five men of treason on Monday, sentencing them all to seven years in prison.Three of the defendants: FG, 29, MG, 27, and TT, 41, were found guilty of treason under Article 131, paragraph 1 of the PLO Revolutionary Penal Code of 1979, which carries a death sentence. Their identities were withheld. The three are from Khirbet Al-Arroub, north of Hebron.
Citing their relatively young age, and the fact that two of them are married, the court reduced the sentences of the three to seven years in prison, under Article 118, paragraph 1 of the same law. Another two men, AG, 43, and TM, 29, were convicted of spying. As in the other three cases, they were sentenced only to seven years in prisons.
Human rights groups say that the Revolutionary Penal code is unconstitutional in the Palestinian Authority.