PRAGUE: The former imam of Prague was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Friday for helping his brother and sister-in-law join a terror group and for financing terrorism, a court spokeswoman said. The court in the Czech capital found Samer Shehadeh, a 36-year-old of Palestinian origin, guilty of helping them join the Al-Nusra front, Al-Qaeda´s sister organisation in Syria. “Samer Shehadeh was sentenced to ten years,” Prague Municipal Court spokeswoman Marketa Puci told AFP, adding he appealed the verdict. His brother Omar was sentenced to 11 years and his Czech sister-in-law to six years, Puci added. Both are at large. Czech police began investigating Shehadeh in 2016 over alleged attempts to radicalise people as he had asked Czech Muslims not to join a Christian mass against terror in Prague in August of that year. Samer was also found to have repeatedly sent money to terrorist group through intermediaries. Czech prosecutors filed terrorism-related charges against him and his brother and sister-in-law in early 2018. According to Czech media reports, Shehadeh was arrested in Jordan before being flown back to the Czech Republic and taken into custody in November 2018.
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