Five Detained in Pazardzhik Released, Imam Remains Under Arrest

Crime | November 26, 2014, Wednesday // 13:24|  views

Bulgaria's Prosecutor's Office and the State Agency for National Security (DANS) searched the mosques in Pazardzhik's Iztok neighbourhood in an operation targeting suspected rpopagation of radical ideology, 25 November 2014, Photo BGNES

Five of the six people detained in the city of in Pazardzhik for suspected propagation of anti-democratic ideology, have been released, BNR radio station reported on Wednesday.

Imam Ahmed Musa Ahmed, seen as the spiritual leader of Muslims in the Roma neighbourhood of the city in southern Bulgaria, remains in police custody. The maximum period of police detention under Bulgarian law is 72 hours.

The morning prayer at the mosque in Pazardzhik's Iztok neighbourhood where the imam had preached went on as usual.

Imam Ahmed Musa Ahmed is appealing a four-year jail sentence issued against him for propagating radical Islam ideas.

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Tags: Pazardzhik, imam, radical Islam, Roma, Iztok

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