A Swedish court on Wednesday jailed a Syrian for seven years for aggravated assault over a Facebook video of him beating a fellow rebel fighter, after his war crimes conviction for the attack was overturned, AFP reports.
Mouhannad Droubi, 29, had become the first Syrian convicted in Sweden for crimes committed in his country's brutal conflict when a court handed him a five-year sentence in February 2015 over the filmed attack.
But the war crimes conviction was scrapped after it emerged that the victim was not a pro-regime soldier as previously thought, but a member of the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) like Droubi himself.
On Wednesday, the court in Huddinge, eastern Sweden, handed Droubi a longer sentence despite the lesser charge. It also ordered him to be deported as soon as his jail term is up and banned him from the country for life.
Droubi, who has lived in Sweden since 2013, posted the video on Facebook in 2012 to prove his FSA credentials.