Bosnian indicted over recruiting militants for Syria and Iraq
SARAJEVO - A Bosnian court indicted a Muslim priest on Wednesday for recruiting people to fight for the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq, using a new law aimed at stopping people travelling to fight alongside militants in the Middle East.
Husein Bosnic, known as an unofficial leader of the ultra-conservative Salafi movement in Bosnia, was arrested in September along with four other men who were later released but who had their passports confiscated.
The indictment accused Bosnic of urging members of his community to join Islamic State militants, saying he had "publicly encouraged others to join terrorist organizations during 2013 and 2014, consciously and from a position of religious authority."
