Bin Laden family sentenced by Pakistan

The three widows and two eldest daughters of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden were sentenced to a jail term of 45 days for living in Pakistan illegally, according to al Jazeera.

They will also be fined around $115 dollars each and will likely be deported from the country within two weeks, having already been detained since American special forces killed bin Laden last May.

"The judge has announced a one-and-a-half-month imprisonment to all the five accused. The punishment was announced today. He has also imposed a fine of 10,000 rupees," Zakarya Ahmad Abd al-Fattah, the Yemeni brother of one of the wives, told the network.

"The court has also given direction to the government to arrange the necessary documents for their earliest repatriation, so that they can go to their own country as soon as possible."

Bin Laden's family will serve the remainder of their sentence in the Islamabad compound in which they are now living with their children, designated as a "sub-jail" by the Pakistani government.

The women, expected to be of Saudi Arabian and Yemeni descent, lived in hiding in Pakistan for nearly a decade, according to a report released late last month by Pakistan. Bin Laden's youngest wife told the government that she and the terrorist leader had four children while on the run, two of whom were delivered in state hospitals.

The women's lawyer did not say where they would travel after being deported or whether American intelligence officers had — or would have — the opportunity to interview the women. The United States is reportedly interested in whether Pakistani officials sympathetic to the terrorist leader aided bin Laden in hiding, including five years he spent at a compound in Abbottabad, a military town north of Islamabad. Pakistan has said they are conducting their own inquiry into how bin Laden was able to remain in the country undetected.

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