Terror data convictions overturned
A British appeals court overturned the convictions of five students jailed in July for downloading information on bomb-making and terrorism from the Internet.
The judges said evidence failed to support the prosecutors’ case that the men planned to use the material “to incite the commission of terrorist acts.”
Those freed were Bradford University students Akbar Butt, Awaab Iqbal, Aitzaz Zafar and Usman Ahmed Malik, and London high school student Mohammed Irfan Raja.
Prosecutors said police who searched the men’s computers found a U.S. military guide giving instructions on how to make explosive devices and a suicide bombing manual.
The men insisted they were simply researching Islam.
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