http://www.smh.com.au/world/danish-activists-found-guilty-of-financing-terrorism-20090326-9cfa.html


Danish activists found guilty of financing terrorism 
  a.. Sam Jones and Helen Pidd in London 
  b.. March 27, 2009 
SIX Danish activists who sold T-shirts bearing the logos of two groups 
classified by the European Union as terrorist organisations have been found 
guilty of financing terrorism.

Denmark's supreme court ruled that the six - members of the Fighters+Lovers 
collective - were found to have contravened the country's anti-terrorism laws 
by selling T-shirts to help fund the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia 
(FARC), and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. They all 
received suspended jail sentences of two to six months.

The case, which has prompted Denmark's biggest debate over freedom of 
expression since the publication of cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad 
four years ago, began in January 2006, when Fighters+Lovers issued a collection 
of T-shirts under the slogan "Look great and stand up for freedom".

The shirts were sold on the internet for $31.50, with about $7.30 of the price 
going to support "humanitarian projects" carried out by the two organisations. 
But in February 2006 the defendants were arrested, the T-shirts seized and the 
group's bank account frozen before any money could reach the target groups.

The accused denied committing any crime, saying the EU "terrorism list" was 
undemocratic because it was drawn up secretly and according to unknown 
criteria. They said FARC and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine 
were not terrorist groups but legitimate resistance movements comparable with 
Denmark's resistance fighters who took on the Nazis during World War II. The 
defendants are considering an appeal.

Guardian News & Media


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