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| Finnish court sentences Iraqi in war crimes case |
| 2016-03-19 |
| [RFE/RL] A Finnish court has given a 16-month suspended sentence to an Iraqi man in a war crime case. The court in Tampere found Jebbar Salman Ammar guilty of desecrating the corpse of a slain enemy fighter in Iraq in June 2014. The man had posted three pictures of himself and a decapitated head of a man on his open Facebook page. Prosecutors had sought a two-year prison sentence. Ammar arrived in Finland about six months ago and was detained in November. A trial in another Finnish court opens next week against an Iraqi charged with war crimes. |
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