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Bakr trial at a glance

Jamaat al Muslimeen leader Imam Yasin Abu Bakr, 70, is charged with:

• unlawfully inciting persons present to demand with menaces property of members of the Muslim community who are not members of the Jamaat-al-Muslimeen;

• unlawfully inciting persons present to demand with menaces property of (former head of the Inter-Religious Organisation) Noble Khan, with intention to steal.

• unlawfully inciting persons present to commit a breach of the peace by enforcing the collection of Zakaat against members of the Muslim community who are not members of the Jamaat-al-Muslimeen; and

• uttering a seditious speech, the purport of which was to engender and promote in his listeners feelings of ill-will or hostility between members of the Jamaat-al-Muslimeen and other members of the Muslim community who are not members of the Jamaat-al-Muslimeen.

Judge: Justice Mark Mohammed

Court: Third Criminal Court at the Hall of Justice in Port of Spain.

State attorneys: Senior Counsel Dana Seetahal, Renuka Rambhajan and Shelly-Ann Gajadhar.

Defence attorneys: Wayne Sturge, Mario Merritt, Hasine Shaikh, Naveen Maharaj and Viveka Pargass

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