Danish man who fought against ISIS gets slapped with ‘absurd’ prison sentence

A 39-year-old native of Aarhus, Denmark’s second largest city, has become the first Dane to be sentenced under a law forbidding entry or residence in certain conflict areas, which passed in 2016.

Danish man Tommy Mørck, who fought Daesh* in the Middle East, has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for violating a law that bans visiting conflict zones without the authorities’ permission, Danish Radio reported. Mørck found the verdict “absurd” and pledged to lodge an appeal.

Between November 2016 and March 2017, Mørck was established to have traveled up to 25 times to the Syrian province of Raqqa to assist in the fight against Daesh alongside the Kurdish militia YPG. Attorney General Jacob Balsgaard Nielsen argued that the YPG’s fight against Daesh didn’t constitute a mitigating circumstance.

Source: Sputnik