(AFP) Spain’s top criminal court has handed seven-and-a-half-year prison terms to two prisoners jailed for terror offences for writing to other inmates encouraging them to stick to jihadist ideology, court documents showed Tuesday.
In a ruling dated February 12, the Audiencia Nacional criminal court jailed Karim Abdeselam Mohamed, 50, and Mohamed El Gharbi, 36, for “recruitment and terrorist indoctrination” and ordered that each pay an 1,800-euro fine.
In practise the pair were convicted “for sending letters to other inmates to encourage them to hold on to the jihadist ideology of Islamic State (IS) and urge them to continue terrorist activities once released.”
Both were already serving time for belonging to a terror group, with Mohamed jailed for 12 years in 2015 and Gharbi jailed for eight years in 2018.
