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  • Two Swiss Muslim leaders convicted of spreading al Qaeda propaganda

    10/27/2020 5:02:39 PM PDT · by xomething · 1 replies
    Reuters ^ | 10/27/2020 | John Revill, Nick Tattersall
    A Swiss court handed suspended jail terms on Tuesday to two senior officials from a Swiss Islamic group for spreading propaganda supporting al Qaeda, in a retrial which followed their earlier acquittal. Nicolas Blancho, president of the Islamic Central Council of Switzerland (ICCS), and media spokesman Abdel Azziz Qaasim Illi were sentenced by the Federal Criminal Court to 15 months and 18 months in prison respectively, both suspended for three years. Prosecutors originally charged the two men and one other ICCS official in 2017 over videos posted online two years earlier that included interviews with leaders of Jabhat al-Nusra, at...