(ANSA) - BOLZANO, JUL 10 - A Bolzano appeals court on Friday
upheld all the convictions in a trial into a jihadi cell in
Italy featuring an Islamist leader recently extradited to Italy
from Norway, Mullah Krekar.
The man's 12-year prison term was upheld.
Krekar was found to have been the 'spiritual leader' of the
Rawthi Shax jihadi cell, which was dismantled by Italian
security police in the autumn of 2015.
Other sentences were also confirmed.
Rahim Karim Twana and Hamasalih Wahab Awat got nine years each
again, and Abdul Rahman Rahim Zana, Jalal Fatah Kamil and Hamad
Bakr got seven and a half years each, as at the first-instance
trial.
Krekar said the trial was politically motivated. (ANSA).
Mullah Krekar convictions upheld (6)
Spiritual leader of jihadi cell, extradited from Norway
