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Finland Sentences Iraqi Man for war Crimes

Tuesday, 22 March 2016 01:58 PM EDT

HELSINKI (AP) — A Finnish court has given an Iraqi man a 13-month suspended sentence for war crimes committed in his home country last year, finding him guilty of degrading the body of a dead enemy soldier.

The Kanta-Hame District Court says the 23-year-old former Iraqi army soldier had desecrated the body, describing his actions as humiliating.

Prosecutor Juha-Mikko Hamalainen said Tuesday that the accused had posted a picture of himself with the decapitated head on his Facebook page "for all to see," and had admitted to the crime.

Last week, in a similar but unrelated case, a court in southern Finland gave another Iraqi man a 16-month sentence for committing war crimes in Iraq in 2015.

Both men arrived in Finland last year, possibly to seek asylum.

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A Finnish court has given an Iraqi man a 13-month suspended sentence for war crimes committed in his home country last year, finding him guilty of degrading the body of a dead enemy soldier.The Kanta-Hame District Court says the 23-year-old former Iraqi army soldier had...
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