Pakistan jails bin Laden's family
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A Pakistani court charged late al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's three widows and two daughters with illegally stay in the country and sentenced them to 45 days in jail, their lawyers told Reuters on Monday.

In practice, that means 14 days in prison because they have been in detention since March 3.

Bin Laden's family members will eventually be deported to their home countries, the lawyers said.

``They were sentenced to 45 days imprisonment and fined 110 dollars each. The money was paid on the spot,’’ Aamir Khalil, one of the lawyers, said.

``The Secretary of the Interior has been instructed to make arrangements for their deportation after that.’’

Analysts had said that Pakistan may have wanted a lengthy prison sentence for the family to prevent them from discussing details of their time in the country.

Once outside Pakistan, bin Laden's relatives could reveal details about how the world's most wanted man was able to hide in United States ally Pakistan for years, possibly assisted by elements of the country's powerful military and spy agency.

Pakistan's government and military have said they had no links to bin Laden.


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