France Guantanamo five convicted

[Eugene]

Source: BBC News

Last Updated: Wednesday, 19 December 2007, 15:05 GMT

France Guantanamo five convicted

Five Frenchmen who spent time at the US detention centre
at Guantanamo Bay have been convicted of having links to
terrorism by a court in Paris.

All five were sentenced to one year in jail plus a
suspended sentence, but will not return to jail having
spent more than a year in US custody.

The five were arrested in Afghanistan, where the US said
they had travelled to fight with the Taleban.

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Five of the French suspects - Khaled Ben Mustapha,
Redouane Khalid, Brahim Yadel, Mourad Benchellali, and
Nizar Sassi - were convicted on charges of "criminal
association in relation to a terrorist enterprise", a
commonly-used charge in France.

A sixth man, Imad Achab Kanouni, was acquitted after
prosecutors recommended that there was not enough
evidence available to convict.

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