The man convicted of aiding the suicide of Carleton student Nadia Kajouji is appealing his 360-day sentence, according to the Ottawa Citizen.
William Melchert-Dinkel was found guilty of aiding suicide by a Minnesota judge in May after he encouraged 18-year-old Nadia Kajouji to kill herself in March 2008.
The defence plans to argue that Melchert-Dinkel was exercising the right to free speech, according to the Associated Press (AP).
Melchert-Dinkel posed as a young depressed woman and encouraged Kajouji, as well as another man from England, to kill herself.
Melchert-Dinkel said he knows what he did was morally wrong but he doesn’t think he did anything illegal, according to the AP.
