Munir Awad

Munir Awad, 29, Lebanese-born Swedish national. He received a sentence of 12 years in prison. He was silent during the trial (Danish: Byret), but told his version of events before the appeal court (Danish: Landsret). The state prosecutor demanded a 14-year sentence, while a lay judge recommended a 10-year sentence. The judges and the other lay judges decided on a sentence of 12 years.^[14]

While in prison he attempted to contact others by connecting other participants to a phone call with his wife, thereby attempting to communicate with people he was forbidden to contact. According to the Swedish Prison and Probation Service, Awad has a network of contacts among radicalized individuals. He was religiously active in the prison and attempted to radicalize inmates.^[1]

Munir Awad was previously arrested in Pakistan in 2009 on suspicions of terrorism, together with Mehdi Ghezali, a former Guantanamo-detainee. Munir Awad is the son-in-law of Helena Benaouda [sv], head of the Muslim Council of Sweden.^[15][16] This led some Swedish newspaper editors to question Benaouda's role as head of one of the country's largest Muslim organization.^[17][18] The suspects' various ties to the Stockholm Grand Mosque also stirred up some media attention. Stockholm mosque is a chapter of the Islamic Association of Sweden.^[19][20]

In 2013 he was transferred to Saltvik prison after his appeal to have his conviction overturned in a Danish court was dismissed. Awad was the only one to appeal his conviction.^[13]

Others

• Omar Abdalla Aboelazm, 30, Swedish-Egyptian origin who had a previous conviction for sexual assault.^[21] While detained in Denmark he was suspected of planning new attacks because police found instructions for building weapons in his cell along with plans of public places.^[22] After being transferred to a Swedish prison, he received a number of warnings for refusing to work and disorderly conduct.^[1][13]
• Mounir Dhari, 44, Tunisian national. While incarcerated, Dhari attempted to radicalize his fellow inmates. He was also noted for disorderly conduct by issuing loud calls to prayer. He received several warnings for death threats against fellow inmates and prison staff. Among those were "I swear I shall kill you, by Allah" to a fellow inmate along with "fucking homosexual" and "I am going to fuck you".^[1] Dhari told his neighbours that he was an employee at Stockholm mosque, a position he received via the Swedish Public Employment Service, though mosque leadership denied knowing who he was, since so many are sent to the mosque by both the Prison and Probation Service and the employment service.^[19] Dhari applied several times to be transferred to a prison nearer to Stockholm but authorities refused due to the risk of escape.^[13]
• Sahbi Zalouti, 37, Tunisian origin, a Swedish national, was arrested in Järfälla, Sweden.^[23] Zalouti received several warnings from prison authorities for disorderly conduct, threats and violence and refusing to work. As a consequence he has at times been put in isolation.^[1][2]
• NN, 26, Iraqi - arrested in Greve, was later released without charge.^[24]

Sahbi Zalouti had also been previously arrested in Pakistan in 2009 on suspicions of terrorism, roughly at the same time as Munir Awad though not together.^{[citation needed]}