A Swedish courtroom mentioned on Wednesday it had discovered a person responsible of violating worldwide legislation by posing with useless or severely injured our bodies in war-torn Syria in 2012 whereas taking part in a militant group.
Ubai Julaybib Benoitzon, 44, a Swedish citizen who has modified his authorized identify a number of instances, had denied the fees towards him, his lawyer Thomas Olsson mentioned on Wednesday.
The courtroom assertion mentioned the crimes included posing for footage and video footage with useless or severely injured our bodies whereas making victory indicators and derogatory statements, with the intention of spreading the fabric as battle propaganda on-line.
“The district courtroom has assessed that the motion constituted a severe violation of worldwide humanitarian legislation,” the assertion mentioned.
The courtroom mentioned it had not been in a position to definitively set up whether or not the our bodies seen within the pictures had been useless or alive.
The decision mentioned Ubai Julaybib Benoitzon, who has additionally been often called Bherlin Gildo and Nathan Benoitzon, on the time of the crimes was a member of a violent Islamist group, which it didn’t identify.
The courtroom sentenced Benoitzon, who had returned to Sweden, to 4 months in jail.
Olsson didn’t instantly reply to the query of whether or not his consumer would enchantment the decision.
The battle in Syria, which spiralled out of an rebellion towards President Bashar al-Assad in 2011, has since killed greater than 350,000 individuals, in accordance with the United Nations.
