Bin Laden's relatives get short prison sentence In this photo taken Thursday, March 8, 2012, Afghan refugees gather outside the house ...

Bin Laden's relatives get short prison sentence

In this photo taken Thursday, March 8, 2012, Afghan refugees gather outside the house in Haripur, Pakistan, that Pakistan's intelligence agency believes Osama bin Laden lived in for nearly a year until he moved into the villa where he was eventually killed. The home in the frontier town of Haripur was used by bin Laden while he waited for construction crews to finish his new home in the garrison town of Abbottabad, just 30 kilometers (18 miles) away. The graffiti at right reads, "journey with persistence in light and congregation in Punjab Universality Lahore called by an Islamic students group Islami Jamaiat Tulba, Haripur." (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

A Pakistani court sentenced Osama bin Laden's three widows and two of his daughters to 45 days in prison on Monday for illegally living in the country, ordering them deported when the sentence ends, their lawyer said.

With credit for time served, the women and several of their other children will leave Pakistan later this month, said lawyer Mohammed Amir Khalil. They have been in detention since American commandos killed bin Laden in a large house in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad on May 2, but they were formally charged with immigration offenses only last month. The Americans left the women and children behind in the house after they flew off with bin Laden's corpse.

The women may have information about how bin Laden managed to remain undetected for close to 10 years after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in the U.S., despite being the subject of a massive international manhunt. The youngest, 30-year-old Yemeni wife Amal Ahmed Abdel-Fatah al-Sada, has told investigators bin Laden lived in five houses while on the run and fathered four children, two of whom were born in Pakistani government hospitals.

Pakistani officials have said they had no idea the al-Qaida chief was in Abbottabad, something many in Washington found hard to believe because his compound was located close to Pakistan's equivalent of the West Point military academy. The U.S. has not found evidence indicating senior Pakistani officials knew of bin Laden's whereabouts, but said he must have had some form of "support network."