STOCKHOLM: A Swedish citizen was sentenced to six months in jail on Thursday for inciting people to finance IS through Facebook, a landmark case for the country. In a Facebook account linked to Ahmad Qadan, 34, a post written in Swedish and published on Aug 21, 2013 said: “Help us supply our brothers at the front with weapons so they can avenge their brothers and sisters.”

Malmo district court judge Lennart Strinas said the case had no precedent in Sweden. “The crime that the man has been convicted of might have been at an early stage in the chain of events but it could have led to a terrorist crime,” he said in a statement.

Published in Dawn, February 24th, 2017