A Dutch court sentences a young woman to two years in prison for traveling to Syria to join the Islamic State group in one of the first such cases in the Netherlands.
“The court considers it proven that she planned to prepare and promote terrorist activities,” the Rotterdam District Court says.
“Therefore she is sentenced to two years in jail of which 13 months are suspended for three years,” the court said in a statement.
Because the woman, known only as Laura H. already spent another year in detention, she will effectively not go back to jail, the judges add.
She was also acquitted of belonging to the IS group, the Dutch news agency ANP says.
The 22-year-old convert to Islam was arrested when she flew back to Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport in July 2016 after apparently fleeing the jihadists.
— AFP
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