The second-degree criminal chamber in charge of terrorism cases at Rabat’s Appeals Court on Wednesday sentenced seven individuals, whose full names have not yet been released and who were prosecuted in separate terrorism cases, to prison terms ranging from one to five years.
In the first case, the court reduced a sentence handed down in the court of first instance against the defendant (identified as N.A) from six years to five years’ imprisonment and a fine of 5,000 MAD. It confirmed a sentence of five years’ imprisonment against the defendant (identified as A.B.) and a one-year suspended sentence against the defendant (A.A) for forming a criminal gang to prepare and commit terrorist acts.
In the second case, the same court upheld the sentences imposed on the two defendants in the court of first instance (Y.N) and (A.C), sentencing them to three years’ imprisonment, and converted a two-year prison sentence imposed on one defendant in the first instance to two years’ suspended imprisonment.
The court also confirmed a two-year suspended sentence handed down in the first instance to three defendants prosecuted in separate cases.
Six defendants, who were prosecuted at large, were found guilty of “forming a gang with a view to preparing and committing terrorist acts, and defending a terrorist organization.”