Sisters who left Switzerland to join Islamic State given suspended prison sentence

May 24, 2024   

(Swiss Info) The Swiss Federal Criminal Court today sentenced two sisters living in the canton of Vaud to suspended prison terms for having travelled, along with a minor son belonging to one of them, to Syria in 2015 to join the Islamic State (IS) terrorist organisation.

The Federal Criminal Court found the women guilty of violating the Swiss federal law banning Al-Qaida and IS groups, and sentenced the younger of the sisters, now 51, to an 18-month sentence and the older, age 54, to a 14-month sentence. Both sentences are suspended for three years.

The younger sister had also taken her minor son to join IS in November 2014, but returned to Switzerland after having failed to cross the border between Turkey and Syria.

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