US EditionHe Worked as a Barber and Partied in Nightclubs but Had Secret Life in WhatsApp Chat - Liverpool Echo
- Mohammed Hamad, a 30-year-old barber originally from Iraq and residing in Liverpool, admitted guilt and received a prison sentence in June 2023 for sharing Islamic State propaganda videos through a WhatsApp group.
- Hamad joined a WhatsApp group of pro-Islamic State members on June 18, 2022, sharing videos that encouraged terrorism while privately living a Western lifestyle including nightclub visits and having diverse friends.
- He sent two videos depicting extreme violence, including one showing a soldier on fire and another showing three prisoners beheaded, both intended to promote acts of terrorism within a trusted group.
- Judge Neil Flewitt KC highlighted the contradiction in Hamad’s behavior, pointing out that he adopted a Western way of life outwardly while secretly backing a terrorist group seeking to harm it.
- Mohammed Hamad received a four-year prison term, plus an additional year on licence, becoming the fourth individual convicted from this pro-Islamic State WhatsApp group that also raised funds in the UK to support IS activities.
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Barber jailed for four years for sharing Islamic State videos
Mohammed Hamad, 30, was sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court. An Iraqi-born barber has been jailed for four years for sending propaganda videos from the terrorist group calling itself the Islamic State to a WhatsApp group. Mohammed Hamad, 30, pleaded guilty on Tuesday, the first day of his trial at Liverpool Crown Court, to two counts of disseminating terrorist publications from the so-called Islamic State (IS), also known as Daesh. At his sentenc…
"Unbelievers Can Be Headed, that's Normal
A 19-year-old Syrian had to answer to the Linz Regional Court for membership in a terrorist association. He is said to have openly sympathized with the ISIS and found relevant material on his mobile phone. He gave himself up in court, got away with a conditional punishment. In a social institution, a now 19-year-old Syrian first appeared with his sympathy for the terrorist organization ISIS (Islamic State). Between June 2022 and August 2023, he …
Sweden to charge IS suspect over Jordanian pilot burnt to death
Prosecutors said Thursday they plan to indict a convicted Swedish Islamic State suspect on charges including the 2015 killing of a Jordanian pilot burned to death in a cage in Syria. Sweden's Prosecution Authority said in a statement it planned to charge a 32-year-old Swedish citizen on 27 May with "serious war crimes and terrorist crimes in Syria". The trial is scheduled to begin on 4 June. Prosecutors did not name their suspect in the statemen…
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