2 get 10 year jail each for threatening to kill judges

(MENAFN- Arab News) JEDDAH: Two Saudi men who are already serving prison sentences of 22 years and 17 years respectively have been handed additional jail terms of 10 years each for threatening to kill judges.
In a separate ruling another citizen was sentenced to nine years in jail on terror and other charges soon after his current 13-year prison term ends local media reported on Friday.
The two men were arrested in Madinah in 1424 A.H. (around 13 years ago) along with four members of Al-Qaeda and arms and material to make explosives were seized from them.
In its latest verdict the Specialized Criminal Court ruled that the two convicts will serve the 10-year terms after their previous sentences end. The two have been banned from traveling outside Saudi Arabia for a period equivalent to their prison terms after the end of their sentences.
The convicts had insisted on continuing to follow deviant ideology and had accused the Saudi government of apostasy and corruption. They also wrongly believed that the Saudi judicial system was politicized and had threatened to kill the chairman of the Specialized Criminal Court and judges.
They were also found guilty of threatening the court employees and refusing to attend the court sessions.
Meanwhile another citizen who was sentenced to nine years in prison on terror and other charges. He had illegally left the Kingdom twice to join the ranks of Al Qaeda in Yemen and contacted a wanted terrorist besides trying to go to Syria to participate in the fight there.
He is also serving 13-year jail term and the fresh prison sentence will start immediately after the current sentence is completed the court said. He has also been banned from traveling outside the Kingdom for the same period after the sentences end. The citizen had been charged with meeting a number of people with deviant ideology following his release from prison the first time turning away from the pledge he had undertaken to stay away from such people. He was also found to have destroyed his Saudi national identification while he was in Yemen.