Omar Nakhcha

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Charge:	"Terrorism (associating with, belonging to, or collaborating with a terrorist group)"
Sentence:	9 years
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Year Cleared:	2011
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Spain
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Omar Nakhcha was one of five codefendants wrongly convicted in 2010 of terrorism charges in Spain for allegedly recruiting fighters for the Iraqi insurgency. The five co-defendants were convicted based on the confession by one man. After being arrested in 2006 in Vilanova i la Geltru the five men said they were humiliated, insulted and threatened. They were sentenced in January 2011 to up to 9 years in prison. On March 3, 2011 Spain's Supreme Court overturned the convictions based on insufficient evidence, and ruled there are doubts that the confession relied on to convict the men was obtained "freely and voluntarily.""
Conviction Caused By:	False confession by one of the five co-defendants extracted by police interrogation.
Innocence Proved By:	"On March 3, 2011 Spain's Supreme Court overturned the convictions based on insufficient evidence."
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Sex:	Male
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Information Source 1:	"Spanish court acquits 5 of links to Islamic terror, By Ciaran Giles, Associated Press, March 3, 2011"
Information Location 1:	http://www.metronews.ca/halifax/world/article/791209--spanish-court-acquits-5-of-links-to-islamic-terror
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Omar Nakhcha

Charge:

"Terrorism (associating with, belonging to, or collaborating with a terrorist group)"

Sentence:

9 years

Years Imprisoned:

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

Year Cleared:

2011

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Spain

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Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

False confession by one of the five co-defendants extracted by police interrogation.

Innocence Proved By:

"On March 3, 2011 Spain's Supreme Court overturned the convictions based on insufficient evidence."

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Was Perpetrator Identified?

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Male

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Information Source 1:

"Spanish court acquits 5 of links to Islamic terror, By Ciaran Giles, Associated Press, March 3, 2011"

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http://www.metronews.ca/halifax/world/article/791209--spanish-court-acquits-5-of-links-to-islamic-terror

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