Abu Dhabi: The State Security Court at the UAE Federal Supreme Court on Monday sentenced a man to 10 years in jail for financing terrorist organisations Daesh and Al Qaida.

The court, presided over by judge Mohammad Jarrah Al Tunaiji, found the Pakistani, Aziz Ahmad Noor Al Haq, 23, guilty of funding the groups.

The court also ordered the defendant to be deported after serving his jail term.

In another case, the court sentenced Omar Abdul Wahab Al Haj Mahmoud, 26, a Sudanese, to 10 years for planning attacks against an emirate.

The court ordered equipment and materials used in the crime to be confiscated and the defendant’s accounts on social media to be shut down.

The defendant was also ordered to be deported after he serves his prison term.

Convicted terrorists face capital punishment, life imprisonment and fines of up to Dh100 million, according to the law enforced in 2014.

The law defines a terrorist offence as “any action or inaction made a crime by this law and every action or inaction made a crime by any other law if they are carried out for a terrorist cause”.

A terrorist intent is established by a direct or indirect terrorist result or when an offender knows that the action or inaction leads, in its nature or context, to terrorist results.

Terrorist acts include inciting fear among a group of people, killing them, or causing them serious physical injury, or inflicting substantial damage to property or the environment, or disrupting the security of the international community, or opposing the country, or influencing the public authorities of the country or another country or international organisation while discharging its duties, or receiving a privilege from the country or another country or an international organisation, according to the law.

In another case, presided over by judge Falah Al Hajeri, an Emirati student charged with attempting to join a terrorist group, had the hearing adjourned to November 14 to enable his lawyer to present his case.

The college student, M.S.S.A, 22, contacted a member of Daesh and took an oath of allegiance to the leader of the terrorist organisation, Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, the court heard.

Prosecutors also told the court that the student aided and abetted the terrorist group through setting up accounts on social media to facilitate a member of the group’s contacts with his leaders and passing on information to them.