Ayman al-Zawahiri - Imprisonment in Russia
Time: Tuesday Apr 1, 1997
Place: Russia
Details: In April 1997, the trio (Ahmad Salama Mabruk - Mahmud Hisham al-Hennawi - al-Zawahiri) were sentenced to six months, and were subsequently released a month later and ran off without paying their court-appointed attorney Abulkhalik Abdusalamov his $1,800 legal fee citing their "poverty".
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