ABU DHABI - The United Arab Emirates' top court convicted a Qatari doctor and sentenced him to seven years behind bars on Monday in the latest move by the Gulf federation against the Muslim Brotherhood and its perceived Islamist allies.

The Federal Supreme Court in the UAE capital Abu Dhabi found Mahmoud al-Jaidah guilty of charges linked to cooperating with an illegal clandestine organisation that aimed to overthrow the government, according to state news agency WAM. He will be deported after serving his sentence.

The organisation was suspended from normal operations because it was working against the legitimate government of UAE, and aimed at overthrowing the government and seizing political power.

Al-Jaidah was additionally accused of mediating between disputing leading figures of the organisation, receiving funds and transferring the funds to members of the banned organisation who remain at large. The list of accusations included receiving funds from abroad and using the funds to sustain himself, according to the investigation records.

Al-Jaidah was detained while transiting through Dubai airport on his way from Thailand to Qatar in February last year. His family has said he had no active role with the Brotherhood.

Two other defendants, both Emiratis, were convicted of ties to the group and were each sentenced to five years behind bars. They were identified as Abdul Wahid Hassan al-Badi al-Shehhi and Saeed Abdullah al-Buraimi.

The court also ordered confiscation of AED150, 000 and other equipment seized from the house of Al Buraimi. The equipment was found to have been used by the accused.

A fourth Emirati being tried on related charges was acquitted.

The court session was attended by the Qatari Ambassador to the UAE, Fares bin Roumi Mohammed Al Nuaimi, relatives of the accused, media and the civil society representatives.

In January, the same court that tried al-Jaidah convicted 30 men, most of them Egyptian, of setting up an illegal Brotherhood branch in the UAE. They received prison terms ranging from three months to five years.

Another 69 people, including a cousin of one of the UAE's ruling sheiks, were last year sentenced to up to 15 years behind bars after being convicted of links to Al-Islah, an Islamist group suspected of ideological ties to the Brotherhood.