The State Security Senate of the Hamburg Higher Regional Court decided to set free PKK terrorist group's former area executive of northern German city of Bremen by lifting his sentence of one year and nine months.
According to the German newspaper Die Welt, the Higher Regional Court in Hamburg sentenced a PKK official codenamed "Beşir" on probation. The former PKK executive of the Bremen area was previously sentenced to one year and nine months of imprisonment without parole.
However, the decision was overruled by the higher court. More than 70 people in the audience, most of them PKK sympathizers, applauded standing as the terrorist was set free.
Die Welt also stated that in three similar cases, the same court sentenced the criminals to each three years of imprisonment without parole.
In this case, the 60-year-old terrorist ran the PKK activities in Bremen area from Aug. 2014 to March 2015 under the code name "Beşir", said the Presiding Judge Klaus Rühle.
He collected donations, organized propaganda events and participated in council meetings on behalf of the terrorist group. According to German legislation, these activities are enough for him to be sentenced guilty.
In 2011, the Federal Ministry of Justice officially allowed PKK members in Germany to be prosecuted for membership in a terrorist organization abroad.
During the hearing PKK's "support" in the fight against Daesh was underlined and a judge even said: "We respect your choice of life and political conviction."
The German news medium criticized the Higher Regional Court for rendering a too "light" verdict.