A Danish appeals court convicted six people yesterday for creating and selling t-shirts featuring rebel groups such as Colombia’s FARC. Though judges initially acquitted the members of shirt company Fighters and Lovers last December, the retrial found the defendants guilty of breaking Denmark’s antiterrorism laws.Five of the defendants received between 60 days and six months in jail and a sixth sentenced to 60 days in prison. One of the defendants was displeased with the verdict:
Michael Schoelardt, the company's managing director, who got six months in prison, said: "We must stand firm in our fight for peace and justice in the world."
Lawyers said they would try to take the case to the Supreme Court…
(Fighters and Lovers) says proceeds from the new range will not go to the militant groups themselves, but to legal aid groups supporting "victims of the Israeli occupation and Colombian government".
The company had previously donated 75 cents of every sold $33 shirt to the FARC as well as Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Both the FARC and PFLP are considered terrorist organizations by the U.S. and E.U.
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Sources- The Latin Americanist, BBC News, Al Jazeera English, New York Times, The Independent
The Danes seem to be the only Europeans these days with the courage to confront terrorists and their sympathizers. God bless Denmark for punishing people who are funding terrorism. After their kail term, those enemies should be expelled from the country.
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