An Uzbekistan citizen who lives in New York City and was previously convicted of conspiring to and attempting to provide material support to the terrorism was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison.
Dilkhayot Kasimov, 34, was handed down the prison term following his conviction of both counts after a one-week trial in 2019, the justice-department” target=”_blank”>Justice Department<
The Brooklyn Federal Courthouse. Dilkhayot Kasimov, a citizen of Uzbekistan living in New York City, was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison for taking part in a plot to support Islamic State militants.
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Federal prosecutors said Kasimov and two co-conspirators, Abdurasul Juraboev and Akhror Saidakhmetov, planned to travel to Syria to terrorism” target=”_blank”>fight on behalf of ISIS<
Juraboev and Saidakahmetov were each sentenced to 15 years in prison. Another defendant was sentenced to 12.5 years.
