(Swiss Info) Switzerland’s Federal Supreme Court has ruled that an Iraqi convicted only of association with al-Qaeda and the Islamic State groups will not be imprisoned. The decision came in response to an appeal by the attorney general.
In July 2021, the Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona had sentenced on appeal the 50-year-old Iraqi national to 65 months in prison and deportation. The court had found him guilty of membership in the two terrorist groups and possession of violent images. A year earlier, the man had been convicted of participation in a criminal organisation and was sentenced to 70 months.
The Office of the Attorney General, which had requested jail-time on both occasions, appealed against the verdict of the Court of Appeal of the Federal Criminal Court.
