TT-born ISIS fighter, financier gets 20 years in jail after US trial

March 29, 2023   

(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday) Former Rio Claro resident Emraan Ali has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in the US for his involvement with the ISIS terrorist group from 2015-2019.

On Tuesday, Chief Magistrate Judge Edwin G Torres of the District Court for the Southern District of Florida sentenced Ali to the maximum term of 20 years’ imprisonment, to be followed by 20 years of supervised release on his discharge from prison.

Ali, who has dual US and TT citizenship, pleaded guilty in January to conspiring to support a foreign terrorist organisation.

The case against him was based on multiple statements Ali had made to FBI agents in Syria that he had joined ISIS and worked for the group in a variety of roles.

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