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Website owners convicted
Posted al-Qaida material
The Swiss Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of two Muslims found guilty of supporting a criminal organization by running Web sites.
The main defendant, Moez Garsallaoui, 40, a Tunisian, was sentenced to six months in prison and given an additional 18 months suspended sentence. Malika El Aroud, 49, Garsallaoui's wife and the widow of an al-Qaida suicide bomber, received a six-month prison sentence that was suspended for three years. The pair posted statements from al-Qaida-linked groups and showed executions on their Web sites. They also provided details of how to make bombs.
The Federal Tribunal said the pair had made their Internet forums available to various terrorist groups operating in the al-Qaida network and thus supported criminal organizations. They claimed they knew nothing about what was going on in their forums.
All the Web sites were shut down by Swiss authorities in 2005.