بلغاريا: معاقبة 13 داعية بالسجن والغرامة لممارسة الدعوة

خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

عاقبت بلغاريا 13 إمامًا وداعية إسلاميًّا بالسجن والغرامة، بتهمة القيام بالترويج للفكر الإسلامي السلفي الأصولي، فاعتبرته المحكمة مذهبًا فكريًّا وخطاب كراهية محظورًا؛ حيث زعمت النيابة أن الدعاة يعملون بجمعية إسلامية غير مسجلة حكوميًّا تتبع جمعية الوقف الإسلامي الهولندية، التي تتبنى الفكر السلفي.

وقد عاقبت أحد الأئمة بالسجن عامًا وغرامة 2500 يورو، وعاقبت داعيين آخرين بالسجن عام وغرامة 1500 يورو لرئاسة جمعية إسلامية، وصادرت الأموال والمصادر وأجهزة الكمبيوتر التي كانت لدى بعضهم.

وحكمت على 10 دعاة بالغرامة 2500 يورو على كلٍّ، وقد أكد محامو الدعاة أنهم سيلجؤون للمحكمة الأوروبية لحقوق الإنسان للطعن على الحكم؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Bulgaria penalizes 13 imams

13 imams in Bulgaria have been penalized after faces charges of spreading ideological propganda, belonging to an Islamic organization and hate speech.

Ahmed Musa Ahmed was sentenced to a year in prison and fined €2,500. Due to a previous conviction, the imam will spend 3 years in prison all together.

Imam Said Mutlu and Mutfi Abdullah Salih were also give one year delayed sentences and fined €1,500 for leading an Islamic organization. Should they be convicted of anything else in the delayed period, their sentences may be extended to three years.

The court also ruled to seize Said Mutlu's assets including cash found in his home and three computers.

The remaining 10 imams were given €2,500 fines each.

Their lawyers have said that they may appeal the convictions to the European Court of Human Rights.

-Prosecutors have convicted 12 Bulgarian men, most of them Muslim prayer leaders, and one woman with preaching radical Islam between 2008 and 2010. Two others in the group have been handed suspended sentences and the rest fined.

Mussa, a former Christian, converted to Islam in 2000 while working in Vienna.

He returned to Bulgaria and studied Islam in a mosque school in the southern village of Sarnitsa. His Saudi Arabian-educated tutor there, Imam Said Mutlu, was one of those who received a suspended sentence on Wednesday.

The group was accused of working with an unregistered branch of Al Waqf-Al Islami, an Islamic foundation set up in the Netherlands and funded mainly by "Salafi circles" from Saudi Arabia, the court said, referring to an ultra-conservative brand of Islam.

Bulgaria is the only European Union country where Muslims are not recent immigrants but a centuries-old community, mostly ethnic Turkish descendants of Ottoman rule that ended in 1878.

Muslims make up about 12 percent of Bulgaria's 7.3 million population. The VMRO is hoping to use the trial to gain votes in the closely fought European elections in May, analysts say.