Manila, Oct 21, 2024 (AFP) - Philippine court jails 17 militants for life for resort kidnappings

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2024-10-21

Seventeen members of an Islamic State-linked militant group have been sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping foreign and Filipino nationals in Malaysia nearly 25 years ago, the Philippine Justice Department said Monday. In April 2000, members of Islamist extremist group Abu Sayyaf kidnapped at gunpoint 21 people from a holiday resort on the Malaysian island of Sipadan. The hostages endured months of captivity in the jungles of Jolo, about 95......

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