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Asharq Al-Awsat
21 hours ago
- General
- Asharq Al-Awsat
US Citizen Who Joined ISIS in Syria is Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison
A naturalized US citizen who pleaded guilty to receiving military training from the ISIS group was sentenced Monday to 10 years in federal prison. Lirim Sylejmani, 49, engaged in at least one battle against US-led forces after he entered Syria in 2015, according to prosecutors. US District Judge Rudolph Contreras in Washington, D.C., imposed Sylejmani's prison sentence followed by a lifetime of supervised release, said the Associated Press. Sylejmani, who was born in Kosovo and moved to Chicago roughly 25 years ago, pleaded guilty last December to one count of receiving military training from a foreign terrorist organization. In November 2015, Sylejmani and his family flew to Türkiye and then crossed the border into Syria, where he began training with other ISIS recruits, according to prosecutors. They said he was injured in a battle with Syrian forces in June 2016 and was captured with his family in Baghouz, Syria, in February 2019. "The conduct is far more than a single, impulsive act. He chose to jeopardize the safety of his family by bringing them to a war-torn country to join and take up arms for ISIS," prosecutors wrote. 'He is guilt ridden for his actions and the harm he has visited on his family, who remain detained in a refugee camp in Syria living under terrible conditions," his lawyers wrote. "He wishes only to complete his time and find his wife and children, so he can live an average law-abiding life with them.'
E&E News
19-05-2025
- Politics
- E&E News
Greens urge court to force feds to restore online enviro data
Advocacy groups are asking a federal court to restore public access to climate and environmental justice webpages removed by EPA and other agencies earlier this year. The Trump administration illegally removed interactive webpages and underlying data that helped both public interest groups and federal agencies identify communities that are most at risk from pollution, extreme weather and rising global temperatures, the Sierra Club and others said in a court filing Friday. 'By removing resources from their websites, Defendants have made it harder for communities to understand the environmental burdens they face and to advocate for policies that will improve their health and well-being,' the groups told the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Advertisement The groups are urging Judge Rudolph Contreras, an Obama appointee, to issue a preliminary injunction requiring agencies to make the webpages available to the public again as litigation over the removal is ongoing. The groups filed their suit challenging the removed pages last month.
