Hafiz Saeed was sentenced on Wednesday (February 12th) to five years in prison, his lawyer told AFP, a first conviction for one of the alleged perpetrators of the 2008 Bombay attacks, which left more than 160 people dead. .
Saeed, designated by the United States as an "international terrorist" , was found guilty of "belonging to a prohibited terrorist organization" and "holding illegal property," said Imran Gill. He had already spent years in various forms of detention, sometimes under house arrest, sometimes briefly arrested and then released by the authorities, without having ever been convicted by the Pakistani justice system.
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