(AFP) A Gaza military court on Tuesday reduced the sentences from life to 15 years for Mahmud al-Salfiti and Tamer al-Husasna, convicted last year of the kidnap and murder on April 14, 2011, of Italian activist Vittorio Arrigoni, 36, a member of the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement. The two men, both former police officers, were convicted in September 2012. In a video, a radical Salafist group threatened to kill Arrigoni within 30 hours if Gaza's Hamas rulers failed to free a group of jihadist prisoners. But the security forces found his body shortly afterwards in northern Gaza.
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