Danish bookseller sentenced to 4 years for inciting terrorism
A Danish-Moroccan bookseller has been jailed for four years for supporting and inciting terrorism in posts on Facebook.
A lawyer for bookseller Sam Mansour argued that his Facebook messages such as "We are terrorists, and we are proud" were a matter of freedom of speech, just as Danish cartoonists who drew the Prophet Mohammad in 2005, outraging many Muslims, were deemed to have been exercising their right to free speech.
"I just used the civil rights that Danish society has given me," Mansour said in his defence statement, adding that he had hurt no one.
But a court in the capital, Copenhagen, rejected that argument and ruled late on Thursday that Mansour had directly incited violence and terrorism.
