Person in history
Alia Abdulnoor
Alia Abdulnoor, Emirati imprisoned woman (born 1977)
Life at a glance
- Died
- 2019 · May 4
Their story
Who they were
Alia Abdulnoor was an Emirati woman convicted of supporting and financing Al Qaeda. She was arrested in 2015 and sentenced in 2017 to a 10 year imprisonment on convictions of financing Al Qaeda, transmitting it's communications, and promoting its ideology; however, human rights activists and her family claim she was arrested for donations made to Syrian women and children in 2011 during the Syrian civil war. While imprisoned,
Why this date
Alia Abdulnoor appears on our May 4 calendar for 2019 as a death entry.
Sources
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Questions about Alia Abdulnoor
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May 4 2019.
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