(Swiss Info) The Federal Criminal Court has reduced a sentence for a man who spread propaganda from the banned Islamic State (IS) group from a suspended prison sentence to a CHF2,500 ($2,635) fine.
The 35-year-old had originally been handed a 180-day suspended jail term and a CHF1,000 fine by federal prosecutors. He appealed this sentence at the court in Bellinzona, which ordered him to instead pay up a fine amounting to a 25-day rate of CHF100 for each day.
Judges ruled the man guilty because [he] made comments on Facebook showing sympathy for the banned group between 2014 and 2015. Scenes of violent content were also found by investigators. IS is considered a terror organisation in Switzerland and the spreading of its propaganda via social media is considered an offence.
