An Iraqi judicial spokesman says a court has sentenced the wife of a slain al-Qaida leader to 20 years in prison for terrorism-related charges.
An Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council spokesman on Sunday, June 26, said Hasna Ali Yahya, the Yemeni wife of Abu Ayyub al-Masri, was convicted last Thursday, June 23.
Spokesman Abdul-Sattar Bayrkdar didn’t give details on the charges, but a government official said she was convicted of facilitating correspondence between insurgents and preparing explosive-laden belts.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to release information.
She has been in custody since the April 2010 joint U.S.-Iraqi north of Baghdad that killed al-Masri along with another prominent al-Qaida in Iraq militant.
