Bin Laden’s wives and daughters jailed in Pakistan

Monday, April 2, 2012: A Pakistani court has jailed the three former wives and two daughters of Osama bin Laden for 45 days for illegally remaining in the country, their lawyers said.
Since they have already been in detention, the sentence means the five women will spend 14 more days in prison before being deported to their home countries.
Bin Laden was shot and killed in May last year by US special forces. The former al-Qaida leader had been living in the Pakistani garrison town of Abbottabad after a decade-long manhunt.
Analysts said Pakistani officials may prefer a lengthy prison sentence for the women to prevent them from revealing details on how bin Laden was able to live in Pakistan undetected – possibly assisted by the security establishment.