A 27-year-old French man found guilty of spreading al-Qaeda propaganda on his website was sentenced to one year in prison on Tuesday, French media reported.
A Paris court found the "Cyber-jihadist", Romain Letellier, guilty of 'inciting and glorifiying terrorism' and sentenced him three years in prison, including a two year probation.
Letellie, who has already spent nearly six months in custody, will be "very quickly accessible to a conditional release", said his lawyer Thomas Klotz.
The young Muslim convert, who goes by the cyber pseudonym Abu Siyad Al-Normandy, was arrested Sept 17 in Calvados, a Lower Normandy region in northwestern France. He admitted to being a webmaster of the jihadist Ansar Al-Haqq website.
Letellie is the first person in France to be prosecuted on the basis of the law passed 21 December 2012 on security and anti-terrorism charges.
According to this law, Letellier could be sentenced up to five years in prison, and fined up to 45,000 euros ($62,000)
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