Denmark charges three members of Iranian opposition group for financing terrorist activity
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Reuters 15 April 2021
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Denmark’s public prosecutor said on Thursday it had charged three members of an Iranian Arab opposition group for financing and supporting terrorist activity in Iran in collaboration with Saudi Arabian intelligence services.
The three members of the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz (ASMLA) were arrested in February last year and have been in custody since.
“This is a very serious case where persons in Denmark have carried out illegal intelligence activities and financed and promoted terrorism from Denmark in other countries,” public prosecutor Lise-Lotte Nilas said in a statement.
The trial will start on April 29 and will be held in the Roskilde district court. The defendants face prison sentences of up to 12 years.
In a related case, a Norwegian of Iranian heritage was sentenced to seven years in June last year for spying for an Iranian intelligence service and plotting to assassinate one of the ASMLA-members. That verdict has been appealed.
Reporting by Nikolaj Skydsgaard; Editing by Hugh Lawson
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