Italy's supreme Court of
Cassation on Tuesday upheld a January ruling by a Palermo
custody review court ruling that Libyan university researcher
Kadga Shabbi should be held in pretrial custody in jail.
Shabbi was arrested last December on suspicion of
instigation to terrorism.
A preliminary hearings judge ruled said Shabbi wasn't a
flight risk and issued a mandatory residence order, rejecting a
prosecution request for jail.
The review court sided with the prosecution, so the defence
appealed to the Supreme Court.
The 45-year-old researcher at a Sicilian university was
allegedly in contact with several foreign fighters and produced
propaganda for the al-Qaeda Islamist fundamentalist group on the
Internet, sources said.
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