Four given suspended jail terms in Finland over funding al-Shabab
A court in Finland has sentenced four people to suspended jail terms for funding the Somalia-based terrorist group, al-Shabab.
On Friday, the Helsinki District Court handed three men and one woman suspended jail sentences for providing the al-Qaeda-linked group with USD 3,900 between 2008 and 2011.
While three of the convicts were sentenced to five-month suspended jail terms, the mastermind of the group received a suspended sentence of 16 months as he was also engaged in recruiting militants for the group.
The convicts are all of Somali descent, but they live in the Nordic country.
Somalia has been the scene of deadly clashes between government forces and al-Shabab militants since 2006.
The militants have been pushed out of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, and other major cities in the country by government forces and the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) which is largely made up of troops from Ethiopia, Uganda, Burundi, Djibouti, Sierra Leone, and Kenya.
PRESSTV