A Pakistan court on Monday charged and sentenced Osama bin Laden's three wives and two daughters for living illegally in the country and flouting immigration laws.
Senior civil judge Shahrukh Arjumand sentenced each of them to 45-day jail and Rs 10,000 ($114) fine.
The court also ordered the government to arrange for their repatriation.
The three-hour proceedings were presided over by a judge inside a makeshift court. It was set up in a posh house in Islamabad where bin Laden's family was put up. The house was designated a "sub-jail" for them.
"The court directed the government to arrange for necessary documents for their earliest repatriation, so that they can go to their own country as soon as possible," Zakarya Ahmad Al-Fatah, Yemeni brother of one of Osama's wives, told reporters.
Muhammad Aamir, their lawyer, said the period of detention began on March 3, when they were formally arrested for illegal entry and residency in Pakistan.
"The interior secretary was directed to arrange their deportation," Aamir said.
He ruled out any appeal against the decision. The women have already served a month of their sentence and are expected to be deported in two weeks.
Over the last few weeks, details about their life while they were in hiding were trickling out in media reports. Amal Abdulfattah (30) from Yemen was Osama's youngest wife. She claimed she gave birth to four of Osama's children while they were on the run. In her account, sourced from a report compiled by Pakistani investigators, she said she flew to Pakistan in 2000 and travelled to Afghanistan where she married Osama before the 9/11 attacks in the US.
The family was later scattered, she told investigators, and she travelled to Karachi in Pakistan. Later, she met her husband in Peshawar and then moved to the Swat Valley, where they lived in two houses. They moved once again before settling in Abbottabad in 2005.
Osama's two older wives, Khairiah Sabar and Siham Sharif, are both from Saudi Arabia. While searching for Osama, most US and Pakistani officials believed he was hiding somewhere along the remote Afghanistan-Pakistan border, possibly in a cave.
He was killed on May 2, 2011 after US special forces stormed his compound at Abbottabad near Islamabad. Several other men in the house were also killed. Osama's youngest wife was injured while rescuing her husband.
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