A local court in southeastern Finland on Tuesday sentenced an asylum seeker to three years and five months imprisonment for aggravated rape and related charges of assault, blackmail and unauthorized viewing.
The victim was another male asylum seeker. The incident took place in November last year in the Konnunsuo reception centre in Joutseno.
The convicted man has denied all the charges. Local media has described him as a male around 35 years of age.
Newspaper Etela-Saimaa gave his name as Hassan Jafar Yusuf. Besides imprisonment, the man has to pay a compensation of 13,000 euros (14,210 U.S. dollars) to the victim.
