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Philippine Court jails 17 militants for life for resort kidnappings carried out 24 years ago

Philippine Court jails 17 militants for life for resort kidnappings carried out 24 years ago

Seventeen members of an Islamic State-linked militant group have been sentenced to life imprisonment for their roles in the kidnapping of foreign and Filipino nationals in Malaysia nearly 25 years ago, the Philippine Department of Justice announced on Monday, October 21.   In April 2000, Islamist extremist group Abu Sayyaf abducted 21 people at gunpoint from a holiday resort on …

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