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Czech man sentenced to jail for wanting to join IS

Xinhua, February 25, 2017 Adjust font size:

Czech Plzen Regional Court sentenced Jan Silovsky to three years and three months in prison on Friday for wanting to join the Islamic State (IS) in Syria.

The court also ordered Silovsky to undergo out-patient psychiatric treatment.

Silovsky, 22, was the first Czech citizen to be prosecuted for wanting to join IS. He was detained by Turkish police at Istanbul airport in February 2016. He'd been carrying a one-way ticket to the Turkish town of Gaziantep near the Syrian border.

The man had ordered a car via the Internet to take him to Jarabulus in Syria where he planned to join IS. He confessed this to the Turkish police before being sent back to the Czech Republic.

Silovsky expressed regret at the court, and said he knew that it is a crime to fight for the IS and that he had wanted to go to Syria to kill, but to let himself be killed. Silovsky appealed the verdict and the case will now be submitted to the High Court. Endit