2 charged for praise of Islamic terrorism
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March 24, 2010, Wednesday
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SPANISH prosecutors are seeking 18-month jail terms for a Spanish cartoonist and a Moroccan colleague charged with praising Islamic terrorism in Internet writings, drawings and videos, a court official said yesterday.
One of the sketches attributed to Spaniard Gonzalo Lopez Royo depicts buildings resembling the Twin Towers collapsing, with people dressed in the festive red-and-white garb of Spain's running of the bulls scurrying away.
Since 2006, Lopez Royo has also posted more than 1,500 entries in a restricted-access Web forum in which he praised al-Qaida and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, its leader in Iraq until he was killed in a US missile strike in 2006, prosecutor Teresa Sandoval said in a charge sheet.
Publicly praising or defending terrorism is a crime in Spain.
Lopez Royo testified that he rejects terrorism and did not want to offend anyone.
One of the sketches attributed to Spaniard Gonzalo Lopez Royo depicts buildings resembling the Twin Towers collapsing, with people dressed in the festive red-and-white garb of Spain's running of the bulls scurrying away.
Since 2006, Lopez Royo has also posted more than 1,500 entries in a restricted-access Web forum in which he praised al-Qaida and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, its leader in Iraq until he was killed in a US missile strike in 2006, prosecutor Teresa Sandoval said in a charge sheet.
Publicly praising or defending terrorism is a crime in Spain.
Lopez Royo testified that he rejects terrorism and did not want to offend anyone.
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