14-09-2024 01:18 via calgary.ctvnews.ca

Calgary man gets 6 years for facilitating terrorism through posting of TikTok video

A Calgary man was sentenced to six years for terrorism-related offences Friday. Zakarya Hussein, 20, pled guilty in December to facilitating terrorist activity. On Friday, Justice Harry Van Harten accepted a joint proposal from prosecutor Domenic Puglia and defence lawyer Alain Hepner that Hussein serve six years in jail. The charges stemmed from the posting of a TikTok video in May that prosecutors said contributed to or facilitated terrorist activity for al-Qaida and the Islamic State group, w
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