(AFP) An Austrian court has sentenced two men to jail over their involvement with the Islamic State group in Syria, a spokeswoman said Wednesday, following a high-profile trial in the country that had one of Europe’s largest per capita rates of IS fighters.
A Chechnya-born man who fled to Austria in 2004 was sentenced to six and a half years in jail, while an Austrian was sentenced to four and a half years in verdicts late Tuesday following a weeks-long trial, the Vienna court spokeswoman told AFP.
In 2013, the duo left Austria to join IS in Syria, according to the indictment cited by the APA agency. The first defendant stayed one and a half years, while the second just stayed several months.
Both can appeal the verdicts.
