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Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - A Jordan court on Monday jailed six men for waving the Islamic State group’s flag and singing jihadi slogans at a wedding,The Japan Times published .

The state security court sentenced two defendants to five years in prison for “carrying out acts that expose the kingdom to the risk of hostile acts and ruining relations with foreign states.”

The remaining four men were sentenced in absentia to 15 years, after they failed to up for the trial.


The defendants were arrested shortly after the wedding in September in the northern city of Irbid, according to the indictment seen by AFP.

It said the defendants had adopted an extremist ideology and had distributed propaganda at religious centres in Irbid, which is close to the Syrian border.

Amman has arrested and imprisoned dozens of jihadis for trying to sneak into Syrian territory to fight there.

IS controls large areas of Iraq and Syria, both of which border Jordan, and has imposed its brutal interpretation of Islamic law.

Jordan last year joined the U.S.-led coalition carrying out airstrikes against IS positions in Syria and Iraq.