Morning Digest | 60 days to challenge jail sentences in Qatar for eight Indian Navy veterans; The Islamic State takes credit for the attack in Iran, among other things.

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) announced on Thursday that Qatar had commuted the death sentence of eight Indian Navy veterans and replaced it with a "varying quantum" of jail terms. This was the official confirmation of the widely publicized case involving the men who were apprehended by the Gulf nation in August 2022. MEA spokesman Randhir Jaiswal said the legal team has sixty days to file an appeal against the jail sentences during the weekly press briefing.Delhi, New:

The Ministry of External Affairs said on Thursday that the eight imprisoned former members of the Indian Navy in Qatar have been granted sixty days to file an appeal against the various prison terms that a court in Qatar imposed last week, which followed the commute of their death sentences. A few weeks after their family members filed an appeal against the earlier ruling by another court, the Court of Appeal in Qatar on December 28 modified the death sentence that had been imposed on the Indians in October and sentenced them to jail terms of varied lengths. A copy of the court order—which he referred to as a "confidential document"—was sent to the Indian nationals' legal team, according to spokeswoman for the External Affairs Ministry Randhir Jaiswal.