http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20180508-093746 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/is-travel-to-syrian-warfare-a-terrorist-crime-the-finnish-case/ Is Travel to Syrian Warfare a Terrorist Crime? The Finnish Case Scheinin, Martin eng 2018-05-08 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 On 24 January 2018, the Helsinki District Court of 24 January 2018 ruled on an alleged plan by three Muslim men, all Finnish nationals, to travel to Syria and join the ongoing armed conflict there. The prosecutor chose to base the charges on Section 2, Preparation of an offence to be committed with terrorist aim, under the construction that joining the armed opposition forces in Syria so as to engage in hostilities against the official army of the al-Assad regime, could have resulted in death or injury to members of the Syrian military forces.