(GLOBAL POST) Switzerland has ordered a returned recruit of the Islamic State group to do 600 hours of community service and will not send him to prison, in the country’s first sentencing of a foreign jihadist fighter.
Swiss Attorney General Michael Lauber’s ruling went into effect this week, he told public broadcaster RTS late Wednesday.
The 30-year-old recent convert to Islam, from the western Swiss canton of Vaud, had travelled to Syria late last year to join an IS training camp.
