A 65-year-old Moroccan citizen was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Tuesday after being convicted by a Portuguese court of recruiting young people to fight in Syria.
Abdesselam Tazi was also found guilty by the court in Lisbon of financing the recruitment using forged credit cards.
Portugals public prosecutor said Tazi was an intelligent man who recruited the people, mostly from Morocco, to travel to Portugal and then join ISIS in Syria.
The court, which found him guilty of a total of seven crimes, found no evidence that Tazi was a member of the militant organization himself.
“The sentencing caught me by surprise,” Tazis lawyer Lopes Guerreiro told reporters, adding he planned to appeal against the courts decision.
“The individual was absolved of belonging to an international terrorist organization but he was condemned for having recruited people for an organization he is not part of,” the lawyer added.
Trials of this kind are unusual in Portugal and the countrys justice minister has said the number Read More – Source
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