(Deutsche Welle) When Mokhmad Abdurakhmanov, a Chechen refugee living in the Bavarian city of Augsburg, shared a DW article on his Facebook page last year, he never imagined he’d end up in legal trouble. But this week a court in Augsburg fined him €1,350 ($1,500) for two Facebook posts. One of them was a DW story detailing how fighters from the Islamic State group obtain weapons.
In March 2018, Abdurakhmanov shared the Russian version of the story that had originally been published on DW’s German page in February that year. The article featured a third-party photo of a group of Islamic militants wielding assault rifles. “I don’t know who supplied what and where, but those are Kalashnikov rifles in the photo,” Abdurakhmanov wrote in his post.
The court took issue with the IS logos displayed on the black caps worn by two of the militants in the photo.
