Libyan researcher to be held in jail

(ANSA) - Palermo, June 28 - 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.