KIGALI (Halbeeg News)- A court in southern Rwandan sentenced 13 people to five years and two others to ten years in jail after founding them guilty of belonging to Somali based armed group al-Shabaab and the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIS).
The high court in Nyanza area acquitted 25 others after the prosecution failed to prove evidence of their involvement in terrorist acts.
Police arrested them in January 2016, less than a week after they killed Muhammad Mugemangango, a preacher accused of encouraging youths to join radical groups.
Security agencies also seized materials such as books, CDs and social network messages.
One of those convicted, Salim Fundi, participated in “coordinating people in Rwanda who wanted to join the terrorist group of al Shabaab in Somalia,” said Judge Eugene Ndagijimana while delivering the ruling.
According to Reuters news agency, those convicted included three women, two of them arrested at the airport in Kigali while en route to Syria and another convicted of helping them with flight tickets.
Majority Christian populated central African country has 2.5 per cent of the Muslim population.
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