Denmark has chrged three members of an Iranian separatist group for financing terrorist activity in Iran in collaboration with Saudi Arabian intelligence services.
According to media reports, the Danish public prosecutor, Lise-Lotte Nilas has said that the charges had been brought against three members of the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz (ASMLA).
Lise-Lotte Nilas said in a statement that this is a very serious case where persons in Denmark have carried out illegal intelligence activities and financed and promoted terrorism from Denmark in other countries. She said that it should of course not take place on Danish soil, and therefore I am satisfied that we can prosecute in the case.
According to Russia Today, the Danish authorities have arrested these three men in February 2020 and they are in the custody since then. They have stand accused of supporting and financing terrorism in their home country of Iran in collaboration with Saudi Arabian intelligence services.
The trial will start on April 29 and they could face 12 years in prison.
It is to be mentioned here that ASMLA fights to achieve its own Arab state on Iranian territory. ASMLA is considered as a terrorist organization in Iran. The three men charged have all been exiled from Iran.
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