Brazil sentences eight over plots to carry out attacks

‘A judge in Brazil on Thursday sentenced eight men for planning an attack in the run up to the 2016 Summer Olympics, marking the first time that a much debated anti-terror law formed the basis of a case in Latin America’s largest nation.
Federal Judge Marcos Josegrei da Silva sentenced the men to between 6 and 15 years in prison. In the 100-page sentence, da Silva included screen shots of the men extolling the Daesh group online, both in their words and images. One picture shows one of the men posing in front of a flag with Daesh written on it in Arabic.
The harshest penalty went to 33-year-old Leonid El Kadre, who authorities said was the group’s leader. He got 15 years and 10 months.’
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