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PEOPLE DETAINED FOR PROMOTING ONLINE RADICAL ISLAM IN BULGARIA SET FREE

Thu, Feb 22 2007 12:17 CET

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The four people detained on charges of provoking radical Islam and religious intolerance via websites will be freed on bail, the supervising prosecutor of the case Chavdar Angelov said.

According to Bulgarian law, stricter measures are inapplicable, as the crime is not so grave, Bulgarian Telegraph Agency (BTA) reported.

Investigators from Sofia worked together with police and as a result of the effort found the people behind the two websites, focusing on radical Islam, religious hatred and intolerance.

Police said that the organiser of the event is a 51-year old man. He was connected to Ahmad Mousa from Jordan who was deported from Bulgaria in 2000 on similar charges..

The people behind the scheme will be able to leave the country as a ban cannot be imposed according to Bulgarian law, Angelov said. The sentence for such crime is a prison sentence of up to three years and a 300 leva fine, he said.

Angelov said that police had no right to impose a ban for leaving the country as according to the law, for such crime a three year prison sentence and 300 leva penalty can be imposed, Angelov said.

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