Danish court gives woman four years in prison for promoting terrorism

(Local) A 26-year-old Danish mother of three was on Thursday sentenced to four years in prison after being found guilty of promoting terror organisation Islamic State (Isis) in Afghanistan.

The conviction against the woman and her sentence was pronounced by the district court in Frederiksberg on Thursday.

The woman has been married to two different men with connections to Isis and helped the organisation maintain and consolidate its position by running a household and taking care of children, the court ruled.

The court meanwhile rejected the woman’s argument that she was in Afghanistan against her will and that she did not know her husband sympathised with the group until she arrived in the country in 2017.

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