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Jan 20, 2010

Jailed for raping UK tourists

AMMAN - TWO Jordanian men were sentenced to 13 years' hard labour on Wednesday for raping two British women tourists who found themselves stranded in the desert kingdom in 2007, a court official said. 'Amman's criminal court jailed the two men, aged 21 and 22, to 13 years of hard labour for raping the British women, aged 24 and 40,' he told AFP without elaborating. The men, who worked at a farm in the Jordan Valley, were accused of attacking the women after they failed to find transport to Amman from the Dead Sea, according to the charge sheet. They offered to help the women find a taxi, but later threatened to kill them and raped them, it said. The two women were studying Arabic in Syria and had gone to the Dead Sea to celebrate the holiday of Eid al-Fitr, the festival marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, it added. -- AFP