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LONDON, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- A British court Wednesday overturned the convictions of five Muslims who downloaded militant literature on their computers.
The Court of Appeal judge said that while the downloaded data was certainly of an extreme nature, there was no evidence to suggest the defendants were planning to carry out acts of terrorism.
The five had been sentenced to 2-3 years in prison by a lower court under a controversial section of the 2000 Terrorism Act that defense lawyers said was intended to apply to individuals who download instructions on bomb making, the BBC said.
Critics of the law refer to it as a "thought crime" measure and predicted Wednesday's appeals court ruling would have a significant effect on how terrorism suspects are tracked down and arrested.
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