Copenhagen - A Danish appeals court Thursday sentenced six people to jail for supporting terrorist groups by selling T-shirts.

Two of the six were sentenced to six-month jail terms, the others received suspended prison sentences ranging from four months to 60 days, the Eastern High Court said.

A seventh suspect was freed of the charges under anti-terrorism laws of using proceeds from the T-shirt sales to fund the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

The activist group Fighters+Lovers said it wanted to fund a FARC radio station and a PFLP printshop. Both FARC and PFLP have been labelled by the European Union as terrorist groups.

The activist group began selling the T-shirts over the internet in January 2006. A few weeks later, the T-shirts were seized and the bank accounts frozen.

The court ordered Thursday that the proceeds of some 25,000 kroner (4,700 dollars) were to be confiscated.

The Eastern High Court cited reports from human rights watchdogs such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, the United Nations as well as the Danish security and intelligence service PET of alleged terrorist acts by FARC and PFLP.

These included "intimidating the population" or attempting to destroy a political and economic system, the court ruling said, noting kidnappings and killings.

The court also said that even if Colombia and Israel violated human rights, these violations did not warrant terror attacks on civilians.

The activist group members said the court ruling was wrong, and said in time they would be vindicated.

Former South African president "Nelson Mandela was 90 years old when he was removed from the US terror list. FARC and PFLP will have to wait a few years to be removed from the EU list," Michael Scholardt, who received a six-month jail term, told reporters.

Defence lawyer Thorkild Hoyer said the ruling would be appealed to the Supreme Court or the European Court of Justice. (dpa)