A Finnish court has given an Iraqi man a 16-month suspended sentence in a rare war crime case where the defendant was found guilty of degrading a deceased enemy soldier.
The Pirkanmaa District Court in Tampere said today the 29-year-old former member of an Iraqi paramilitary unit had posted pictures of himself and a decapitated head of an alleged Islamic State militant on his open Facebook page.
During the one-day trial, the court called the defendant's actions degrading and humiliating, adding the victim was easily recognisable.
The man had arrived to Finland in 2015 possibly to seek asylum and was detained in November pending investigation.
On Tuesday, another trial in Finland opens against an Iraqi man suspected of war crimes in Iraq.
