A Norwegian court on Tuesday sentenced an Islamist to nine years in prison for recruiting a jihadist candidate who wanted to join the Islamic State (IS) group.
An Oslo court also found Ubaydullah Hussain, a 31-year-old Norwegian citizen, guilty of pledging allegiance to IS, financially supporting the group, providing its supporters with equipment and attempting to pervert the course of justice.
The trial was Norway’s first over recruitment of potential jihadists to fight for IS, listed as a terror organisation by the United Nations.
In 2015, Hussain prepared Simen Andreassen, a Muslim convert who’s now 20, to go to fight in Syria.
He took Andreassen to Gothenburg in neighbouring Sweden from where he flew to Turkey to enter the neighbouring war-torn country.