Dutch court convicts nine for terror offences

A Dutch court has found nine people guilty of terrorism offences after one of the biggest terror trials ever to take place in the country. At a heavily guarded courtroom in Amsterdam, the eight men and a woman were sentenced to up to six years. Six men were convicted as members of a network aiming […]

A Dutch court has found nine people guilty of terrorism offences after one of the biggest terror trials ever to take place in the country.
At a heavily guarded courtroom in Amsterdam, the eight men and a woman were sentenced to up to six years.
Six men were convicted as members of a network aiming to recruit young people to fight with Islamic State (IS) and other jihadi groups in Syria.
Two of those are believed to be in Syria and were tried in absentia.
Three were described as followers, including the woman, who was jailed for seven days for a retweet which constituted incitement.
The nine were arrested last year in a large police investigation into jihadist activities in the Schilderswijk suburb of The Hague.
“The criminal organisation aimed to incite and recruit ‘brothers’ to travel to fight in Syria and financed them to that end,” presiding Judge Rene Elkerbout said.