According to the Criminal Code, draconian sentences from five to fifteen years in prison are threatened by terrorists. According to the Attorney General Pavel Zeman, the strict paragraph should be changed, as confirmed by Práva.
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“The factual nature of the support and promotion of terrorism, when acts take place via the Internet, has a relatively high penalty. In this context, the Supreme Public Prosecutor’s Office (NES) has initiated a change to give more discretion to the courts.
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Thus, in order for the courts to be able to weigh even more the seriousness of the crime, the person of the offender and all aggravating or mitigating circumstances, especially given that if the sentence is fixed from five to fifteen years, then there is basically no chance to get into the so-called conditional sentence of imprisonment, “wrote Práva Zeman.
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The NSZ’s proposal for legislation consists in changing the original rate from five to fifteen years for the verbal approval of terrorist acts on the Internet to a rate from two to ten years, where there would already be the possibility of a conditional suspended sentence.
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Burning school versus good work
Hate spills to the address of a class of predominantly Romani, Vietnamese or Arab first-graders, including calls to burn a school or a grenade attack, ended up with a maximum condition for their authors for inciting hatred against a group of people. The accused were threatened with a maximum of three years in prison.
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On the contrary, the comment on terrorist rampage in Christchurch in New Zealand, which killed 51 people at two mosques, it was already a matter of law to support and promote terrorism. On Tuesday, the Brno Regional Court sent a young man from the Znojmo region, who presented himself on the network with the nickname Ssman and created a comment “How do they like their medicine? Good job ???! ”, To six years in prison.
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“I believe that for actions that are not so invasive, they are not so serious, it is possible to impose milder punishments. By no means do I want to comment on the decision of the court both in the case of Teplice schoolchildren and the current decision of the Brno Regional Court. I do not know the exact circumstances of the case, and if the court imposed a stricter punishment, it undoubtedly did so after considering all the circumstances, “Zeman added with one breath.
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