The Public Prosecutor’s Office (MP) will appeal the decision of the Central Criminal Court of Lisbon, which this Thursday sentenced the Iraqi brothers Ammar and Yasser Amin to 16 and 10 years in prison respectively for joining a terrorist organization.
In a note published on the website of the Prosecutor General’s Office (PGR), the deputy indicates that the court found it proven that the two brothers were “members of the Islamic State, more precisely, the religious police of Al-Hisb and Al-Amnia.” Information Service,” but he was not satisfied with the penalties imposed after asking in closing arguments for penalties close to the maximum penalty of 25 years in prison.
“The prosecutor’s office will appeal this decision,” said a statement released on Thursday by the Central Department of Investigation and Criminal Affairs (DCIAP), highlighting the “first conviction in Portugal” for a war crime (in Iraq). ).
Ammar Amin was found guilty of the crime of joining a terrorist organization, a war crime against the people and a threat crime, while Yasser Amin was found guilty of the crime of joining a terrorist organization, according to the ruling of a panel of judges chaired by Alexandra Veiga. .
Both brothers were also sentenced to the additional penalty of expulsion from Portugal. Now it will be up to lawyers to challenge his execution, since Portugal does not extradite defendants to countries where the death penalty is used, as is the case in Iraq.
The defendants have declared their innocence, and their lawyers Lopez Guerreiro and Vitor Parente Ribeiro have already expressed their intention to appeal to the Lisbon Court of Appeal.
At issue were the defendants’ connections to the extremist group Islamic State and actions committed by the two Sunni Muslims while they were both living in Mosul, one of many Iraqi cities occupied by the radical movement.
Arriving in Portugal in March 2017 from Greece under the European Union (EU) refugee resettlement programme, Ammar Amin and Yasser Amin have been in preventive detention since September 2021, when they were detained by judicial police.
The DCIAP investigation examined the defendants’ activities as members of the self-proclaimed Islamic State during the terrorist organization’s occupation of Iraq from 2014 to 2016.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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