Denmark: Terrorist sentenced to prison

A Danish national born in Morocco was found guilty on Wednesday of inciting terrorism. The Copenhagen City Court handed Said Mansour a prison sentence of three years and six months, claiming he spread propaganda that encouraged radical Islamist groups to commit terror acts. Police accused Mansour of being in contact, for example, with the four young men from Glostrup, who were recently tried for planning a terror act in Denmark. During Mansour's trial, which began in September 2005, prosecuting attorney Lone Damgaard presented the court with hundreds of videotapes and CD-ROMs confiscated from the defendant's apartment which documented various terrorist acts and showed Americans being decapitated. The prosecution also established that Mansour had been in close contact with Omar Abdelrahman, the blind sheik who received a 240-year prison sentence for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. Mansour maintained his innocence throughout the trial, however, claiming he was studying terrorism rather than propagating it. Experts agreed the court decision was historic, because it marked the first time somebody has been convicted using a new anti-terrorism law enacted in 2002 which prohibits the promotion of terrorism on Danish soil. The court decision effectively put a limit on how much radical propaganda can be distributed without being convicted for inciting terrorism.
Source: Copenhagen Post (English)

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