Mohammed cartoon suspects set free
Prosecutor Agnetha Hilding Qvarnstroem demanded in her closing remarks that they each receive at least three years in prison, while the men's defence attorneys insisted there was little evidence against their clients and demanded they be set free.
Mr Vilks has faced numerous death threats and was the target of another suspected assassination plot since his drawing of the Prophet Mohammed as a dog was first published by a Swedish regional newspaper in 2007, illustrating an editorial on the importance of freedom of expression.
The three men released yesterday were arrested along with a fourth man, no longer considered a suspect, by an elite counter-terrorism unit in Gothenburg.
The unit had evacuated hundreds of people from a building hosting the September art fair "after concluding that there was a threat that could endanger lives or health or cause serious damage".
Mr Vilks had initially said on his blog that he would attend the art fair although he did not in the end.
Spokesman for Al-shabab fighters, Sheik Abdi Aziz Abu Musab said in remarks broadcast on the media that One of their mujahedeen brigade martyrs blew himself up" in the government and AU military compound at KM4 junction nearby former Egyptian embassy,
The men were identified in documents submitted to the Gothenburg court as Abdi Aziz Mahamud, a 26-year-old Somali citizen living in Sweden, and Swedish citizens Salar Sami Mahamood, 24, and Abdi Weli Mohamud, 26. The three were arrested,
Another sad example of the group forcing their ban was the tragic killing of a rising star by the name of Abdi Salaan Mohamed Ali, in a car bombing which killed 10 others a few months ago. The group has also detained a 19 year old Somali international
