Aaron Yoon, seen in a 2006 yearbook photo from South Collegiate Institute in London, Ont., was in a Mauritanian court on Monday as prosecutors argued that his two-year sentence on terror-related charges should be raised to 10 years.
A Mauritanian policeman who acted as a go-between for Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and its jailed operatives was sentenced on Tuesday to ten years in prison, a judicial source said.
A court in the capital Nouakchott ruled the policeman had served as a “liaison between AQIM terrorists and prisoners from the organisation in Mauritania”, the source said on condition of anonymity.
“He transmitted photos and security information between dangerous prisoners and their mentors,” the source said, without elaborating.
According to observers, this is the first time a member of the Mauritanian security services has been tried and sentenced for links with AQIM.
Online news agency Alakhbar said the officer had provided AQIM with pictures and other information from inmates on the conditions of their detention in the northern Mauritanian Salah-Eddine airbase.
The monitoring of prisoners convicted of terrorism and considered dangerous due to their suspected membership of AQIM is currently the responsibility of the national Mauritanian police force, the agency said.
It was not immediately clear when the offences were committed or when the unnamed police officer was arrested.
Thirteen members of AQIM, including eight on death row, were moved from the Mauritania capital’s central jail to a secret location in 2011, security sources and relatives of the prisoners told AFP at the time
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