Copenhagen - The Danish Supreme Court was set to try the convictions of six people sentenced for supporting terrorist groups by selling T-shirts, an appeals board said Tuesday. The Eastern High Court in September sentenced two persons to six- month jail terms. The others received suspended prison sentences ranging from 60 days to four months.
A seventh suspect was freed of the charges under anti-terrorism laws of using proceeds from the T-shirt sales to fund the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
The activist group Fighters+Lovers had appealed the convictions.
The group said it wanted to fund a FARC radio station and a PFLP printshop. Both FARC and PFLP have been labelled by the European Union as terrorist groups.
The activist group began selling the T-shirts over the internet in January 2006. A few weeks later, the T-shirts were seized and the bank accounts frozen.
The appeals court ordered that the proceeds of some 25,000 kroner (4,700 dollars) were to be confiscated.
No trial date for the Supreme Court hearing was stated.
The Eastern High Court in its ruling cited reports from human rights watchdogs such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, the United Nations as well as the Danish security and intelligence service PET of alleged terrorist acts by FARC and PFLP.
