{"id":57622,"date":"2023-07-21T18:10:58","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T16:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=57622"},"modified":"2023-07-21T18:10:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T16:10:58","slug":"31-year-old-albanian-man-sentenced-to-3-4-years-in-prison-for-terrorist-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/31-year-old-albanian-man-sentenced-to-3-4-years-in-prison-for-terrorist-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"31-year-old Albanian man sentenced to 3.4 years in prison for terrorist calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Special Court against Organized Crime and Corruption in Albania sentenced citizen Bledar Zeneli to 5 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>However, due to the shortened trial, he benefited from a reduction of the sentence, resulting in a final sentence of 3 years and 4 months in prison.<\/p>\n<p>He was accused of \u201cIncitement to calls and propaganda for committing acts with terrorist purposes\u201d and \u201cIncitement to hatred or enmity\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Zeneli, 31 years old, worked in construction in the city of Durr\u00ebs.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested in August 2022 after a two-year investigation by the Anti-Terror Directorate under the direction of the Special Prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>Zeneli was suspected of \u201cpublishing articles, radical, extremist, propagandistic materials, and statuses in support of the Islamic State and against the global anti-terrorism coalition\u201d through various social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Telegram.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Special Prosecution, Zeneli, in collaboration with unidentified individuals, made public posts through social media expressing open sympathy for terrorist attacks, such as the one that occurred on October 29, 2020, in Nice, France, the terrorist attack in Vienna, Austria, on November 2, 2020, and other terrorist acts or radical and extremist actions.<\/p>\n<p>These posts were made on the profile \u201cElezi Ibrahimi\u201d on Facebook, the prosecution explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Special Court against Organized Crime and Corruption in Albania sentenced citizen Bledar Zeneli to 5 years in prison. 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