A Dutch court convicted two Pakistani religious and political leaders in absentia over calls to their followers to murder anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders, the leader of the Freedom Party.

Wilders has lived under round-the-clock security for nearly 20 years due to the thousands of threats to his life following his outspoken criticism of Islam. His bodyguards and two armed military police sat in the courtroom during the sentencing.

Neither of the defendants was in court to hear the verdicts. They are believed to be in Pakistan and are unlikely to be turned over as Pakistan has no extradition agreement with the Netherlands. Prosecutors said last week that requests they sent to Pakistani authorities seeking legal assistance to serve subpoenas on the two men were not executed.

Muhammad Ashraf Asif Jalali guilty of attempting to provoke murder and incite Wilders’ murder with a terrorist intent and of issuing threats. He was sentenced to 14 years for his comments on his website with huge following around the world “infringed Wilders’ personal privacy very seriously,” adding that such threats “can also harm freedom of expression in general.”

In the second case, the court convicted Saad Rizvi, who leads the radical Islamist Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan, or TLP, for incitement to murder and threatening Wilders. He was sentenced to four years. He got a lower sentence in part because the court ruled that his comments posted on social media did not amount to a terrorist crime.

Wilders welcomed the verdicts and sentences from the three-judge panel.

They are not the first Pakistani men convicted and sentenced in the Netherlands for threats targeting Wilders.