The Criminal Chamber of First Instance in charge of terrorism cases at the Rabat Court of Appeal handed down, on Thursday, sentences ranging from 2 to 8 years’ imprisonment to five individuals prosecuted in separate terrorism-related cases.
In the first case, in which three defendants were prosecuted in custody, the court sentenced the main defendant to 8 years’ imprisonment, and the other two defendants to 6 years’ imprisonment, for “forming a criminal gang to prepare and commit terrorist acts aimed at seriously undermining public order, and advocating organizations and acts constituting a terrorist crime”.
The court also sentenced the only defendant in custody in the second case to 6 years’ imprisonment, while the defendant in the third case was sentenced to 2 years’ imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 dirhams for «glorification of a terrorist organization and acts constituting a terrorist crime » .
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