A convicted terrorist has been jailed for XXX 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.
The judge also ruled that he must service two-thirds in prison.
Saleem is subject to a notification period for 30 years.
Shafi Saleem has been sentenced after posting Isis propaganda
METROPOLITAN POLICE
Saleem was previously jailed for two years for promoting Isis on social media, after using more than 20 profiles on Twitter — now known as X — and Instagram to promote the terror group as it continued its rampage across Iraq and Syria.
One of the posts on Twitter that led to his jailing was a photo of two zombie knives, which have since been outlawed, with a single-word caption: “itching”.
Saleem also posted a photo of another man holding the weapons, captioned “dip dip dip,” a street term for stabbing.
Isis-supporting knifemen have conducted multiple attacks in Britain since the so-called Islamic State was founded in Iraq and Syria.
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS:
In their latest investigation into Saleem, detectives from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command trawled through over a terabyte of data recovered from his devices, which revealed a trove of pro-Isis and Al Qaeda-related material.
It included articles from terror publications and videos of slain Al Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden.
Retrieved footage also included a meeting between convicted terrorists Anjem Choudhary and Mizanur Rahman.
Saleem was being sentenced after convictions for several separate charges, including a dissemination offence, failing to comply with notification requirements and a public order offence.
Saleem was previously jailed for two years for promoting Isis on social media
METROPOLITAN POLICE
The public order offence relates to Saleem using threatening words towards officers when he was arrested at Heathrow on Valentine’s Day 2023.
Members of the team that arrested Saleem were present at the Old Bailey to see him sentenced.
In mitigation, defence barrister Shannon Revel said that Saleem had once been in a coma due to meningitis, which led to social withdrawal where he was attracted to an “online persona”.
The defence added that Saleem had limited contributions to pro-Isis Telegram channels and social media groups, in one case asking whether it was permissible for a Muslim to work in the construction of a church.
Most of his posts, Revel added, were simple greetings.