(Swiss Info) Judges at the Swiss Federal Court have thrown out an appeal by an imam convicted of inciting hate and violence, who worked at a Winterthur mosque.
The man was convicted by a Zurich district court in 2017 and given a suspended sentence of 18 months plus a 10-year deportation from Switzerland. The verdict was upheld on appeal in a cantonal court a year later.
Charges against the unnamed man included delivering a hate-speech-filled sermon in October 2016 at the now-defunct An’Nur mosque in Winterthur.
In a verdict published on Friday, the Federal Court said that the man had incited violence and criminal acts in parts when preaching.
