Instagram Islamist jailed for 10 years for posting Isis propaganda The shared footage showed various suicide bombings

July 31, 2024   

(GB News) A convicted terrorist has been jailed for 10 years after sharing Isis propaganda on his Instagram story.

Shafi Saleem, 35, has previous terror convictions and was arrested in February 2023 at Heathrow Airport returning from Pakistan.

Saleem, from east London, posted Isis footage on his Instagram story, which showed various suicide bombings.

The footage was posted in July 2022, on the anniversary of the 2005 7/7 bombings in London, where four separate suicide bombers killed 52 people on three Tube trains and a bus.

In court today, Saleem was sentenced to nine years in prison, with one on license.

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