An Edinburgh man who encouraged terrorism against India from his flat has been fitted with an electronic tag, following a Twitter outburst.
Firoz Madhani, 67, took to social media to incite different acts of terror and extreme violence against governments.
Madhani, from the Dalry area, appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Tuesday and was given an eight-month restriction of liberty order and placed under supervision for a year, as The Daily Record reports.
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Madhani also pled guilty to a charge under the Terrorism Act 2006, with four other tweets being published on September, 21, 2019, and was related to the conflict in Kashmir.
In one tweet, Madhani appeared to be asking Pakistan's Prime Minister to incite an attack on India, adding: "we are ready to kill & die." In a later tweet he wrote: "We will cross the border and bleed them."
On November 27, 2019, police were alerted to his tweets and consequently seized him at Edinburgh Airport. His phone was later confiscated.
The court previously heard how Madhani admitted making a number of posts on Twitter from his home and elsewhere. He admitted to "glorifying acts of terrorism committed by others, encouraging acts of violence, and inciting violence by and against Governments."
The charge continued onto Madhani's posts having the intention to be a "direct or indirect encouragement or other inducement to the commissions, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism" or that his actions were "reckless" as to whether that was the effect.
The offence was aggravated to religious prejudice.
The crown did, however, accept a not guilty plea for a second allegation that was linked to accusations towards Madhani, expressing he had an opinion or belief that was supportive of a prescribed organisation, namely Hezbollah, on social media from his flat on September 2, 2019.
By law in the UK, Hazbollah is a banned terrorist organisation.
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