Kuwait court sentenced a Filipino woman to 10 years in jail on Monday, after convicting her of joining the Islamic State jihadist group and plotting attacks.
She was arrested in August two months after arriving in Kuwait to work as a domestic helper.
She was arrested in August two months after arriving in Kuwait to work as a domestic helper.
The ruling, which is not final, also calls for deportation of the 32-year old Livani Azvilo Pescaeda after her jail term is served.
According to the Ministry of Interior of the state of Kuwait, the woman had confessed that she is a member of the Islamic state group and her involvement in plotting terrorist attack in the area.
During the interrogation, she said that her husband is an active Daesh (ISIS) fighter in Libya. Her Somali husband asked her to come to Kuwait from the Philippines as a domestic helper. She awaits for the explosive devices to conduct a suicide bombing attack in Kuwait. She said , her husband told her that she would go to heaven if the suicide bombing will be carried out successfully.
During the interrogation, she said that her husband is an active Daesh (ISIS) fighter in Libya. Her Somali husband asked her to come to Kuwait from the Philippines as a domestic helper. She awaits for the explosive devices to conduct a suicide bombing attack in Kuwait. She said , her husband told her that she would go to heaven if the suicide bombing will be carried out successfully.
This allegedly ISIS-affiliated group has conducted a string of bombings as well as kidnappings for ransom terrorizing locals, foreign tourists and Christian missionaries in the Philippines.
Kuwait police has arrested an Egyptian driver suspected of being a member of the IS, after he rammed a garbage truck into a pick-up carrying five Americans. It happened in October.
Authorities in July said they had dismantled three IS cells plotting attacks, including a suicide bombing against a Shiite mosque and against an interior ministry target.
An IS-linked suicide bomber killed 26 worshippers when he blew himself up in a Shiite Mosque in June of last year, considered to be one of the worst terror attack in the Gulf region.
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