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| Mauritanian policeman sentenced for terrorism |
| 2013-05-16 |
| [MAGHAREBIA] A Nouakchott court on Tuesday (May 14th) sentenced a policeman to 10 years of hard labour for collaboration with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, al-Akhbar reported. Abdallahi Ould Mohamed Ghailany, who served as a guard at Salah Eddine prison, facilitated communication between salafist inmates and hard boyz outside the jail. This was reportedly the first time for a member of the Mauritanian security services to be tried and sentenced for links with AQIM. In related counter-terrorism news, four students from the University of Aïoune received up to five years in jail for plotting hard boyz acts, ANI reported. Prosecutors on Tuesday also demanded a ten-year jail term for a Canadian convicted of attempting to join an al-Qaeda training camp in neighbouring Mali, a judicial source told AFP. Aaron Yoon is serving two years in Nouakchott after being convicted last year when he was 24, but prosecutors have appealed for a longer sentence. Yoon, who is of Korean descent, was tossed in the slammer Book 'im, Mahmoud! in December 2011 when he tried to visit AQIM camps in Mali, according to the indictment against him. |
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