In the US, a refugee from Uzbekistan was sentenced to 11 years in prison for supporting terrorists

Jamshid Mukhtorov, a 42-year-old refugee from Uzbekistan who lives in the United States, was sentenced on August 30 by a Colorado court to 11 years in prison for supporting terrorism.

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In June 2018, Mukhtorov was found guilty of trying to transfer $ 300 to a terrorist organization of the Islamic Jihad Union (IJU), as well as intending to provide them with personal support, writes The New York Times.

The Islamic Jihad Union (IJU) is a Pakistani Islamic militant organization that opposes secular rule in Uzbekistan.

Judge John Kane said in the verdict that “Mukhtorov’s offenses are serious and his rhetoric is scary,” but does not include threats of committing or planning violent acts in the United States.

Prosecutors demanded years of imprisonment for Uzbek 30, but the judge decided that the atrocities committed by him were not enough for such a long period of imprisonment.

Mukhtorov has already spent six years and seven months in prison - he has been in custody since 2012, when law enforcement officers arrested him at the Chicago airport while trying to fly to Istanbul to further join terrorists.

According to court documents, the man swore allegiance to the Islamic Jihad Union and told his 8-year-old daughter: "Pray that your father will become a martyr ...".

Earlier, on July 18, an accomplice of Mukhtorov, Bakhtier Jumayev, was sentenced to 76 months in federal prison.

Mukhtorov and his family arrived in Denver in 2007 on a refugee resettlement program. The family fled from Uzbekistan, where Mukhtorov was beaten twice for his human rights activities.

He soon became disillusioned with life in the United States and began corresponding with terrorists, encouraging other people to join terrorists, and eventually decided to go to Turkey in 2012 to join extremists himself. However, Mukhtorov's lawyers stated that he never intended to take any action - neither send money nor join the Union of Islamic Jihad.

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