New Delhi: The three terrorists sentenced to death in the Parliament attack case on December 18 claimed that they were "innocent" and termed the trial as a "farce".

"It is all farce... by convicting innocent persons, you cannot suppress emotions...you cannot stop the freedom movement in Kashmir... I am giving my life for it," convict S A R Geelani, a suspended Delhi college lecturer, said after special judge S N Dhingra sentenced him along with Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorists Mohammed Afzal and Shaukat Hussain Guru.

After pronouncement of the sentence he said, "If fighting for the liberation of Kashmir is terrorism, I am a terrorist," even as he was dragged out of the court by the security men.

At the outset of proceedings, Geelani requested the court to give him five minutes to speak to the press after pronouncement of the sentence.

However, the Judge's reply was lost in the din that followed, with some lawyers exchanging angry words with the convicts.

Later, Afzal requested the scribes to write about their "case" saying, "You are journalists of an independent country. You should write independently."

PTI