Afghans jail Britons, Indian for possessing guns
08 December, 2005
KABUL, December 09 (Online): An Afghan court sentenced two Britons and an Indian to two years in jail on Wednesday after convicting them of illegally possessing firearms, but acquitted an American who stood trial with them.
The four men were arrested in October in a police raid on a Kabul guest house.
Judge Ansarullah Mawlavizada said Britons Peter Eaton and Michael Shaw and Indian Naveen Joshi had been found guilty of illegally possessing guns.
He said the prosecutor had accused them of gun smuggling but all had denied this.
The judge said the men could appeal against the court decision, which was handed down after a trial that lasted less than one day.
American Sargon Heinrich was found not guilty and released, Mawlavizada said.
In September last year, three Americans were given long jail terms for illegally detaining and torturing Afghans in a freelance war on terror.
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