6 Danes get jail for selling T-shirts

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Six people have been sentenced to jail for challenging Denmark's terrorism law by selling selling T-shirts to benefit Palestinian and Colombian groups.

The six were members of a group called Fighters and Lovers, the Copenhagen Post reported. The shirts had slogans supporting the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, usually known by its Spanish initials, FARC.

A city court in Copenhagen had acquitted them, finding that the two groups are not terrorist organizations. But prosecutors appealed to the Eastern High Court, which agreed with the U.S. and European Union designation of the groups.

Five of the six worked for the company that made the T-shirts, while the sixth hosted its Web site. A food vendor who hung one of the shirts on his cart was acquitted.

The sentences range from 60 days to six months.

The T-shirt sales raised 25,000 kroner (almost $5,000) for the FARC and PFLP, but the money was seized by police.