Posted on 12/14/2015 8:00:49 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Two Swedish men were sentenced to life in prison on Monday for assisting in executions in Syria in 2013.
Police found a USB stick containing films showing the killings during a search of one of their homes, a Swedish district court was told.
In a video shown in court by the prosecutor, masked men stood around three men on their knees with their hands tied behind their backs.
Two of the victims have their throats slit. The head of one is cut off and held up for display. Their captors — including the men identified by the prosecutor as the two Swedes — are seen cheering.
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An important verdict, specially as it normally must be very hard for the prosecution to prove beyond any reasonable doubt what has happened in Syria.
They got life in prison and that means they will sit there until the government may decide to grant them pardon. That will not happen any time soon. We have one killer who will be released next year after 34 years in prison, at the age of 78.
Quite correct. The murderers names are Hassan Al-Mandlawi and Al Amin Sultan according to Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet: http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article21936468.ab
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