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Thursday, February 07, 2008

Belgian Court Scraps Terrorist Conviction of Turks

"Belgian Court Scraps Terrorist Conviction of Turks
The seven include Fehriye Erdal, a woman wanted by Turkish authorities on suspicion of murdering a prominent businessman.

A Belgian appeals court on Thursday quashed the convictions of seven Turks found guilty of being members of a terrorist group, but gave three of them suspended prison sentences for other charges.

In April last year, Belgium's highest court had ordered a retrial after ruling that one of the judges handling the first trial in 2006 appeared not to have been impartial."

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