Five years in prison for IS tweets

london - A 23-year-old Briton was Thursday sentenced to five years in prison because he did about 8,000 tweets in which he recorded for the Islamic State. He did so in sixteen different accounts. Mohammed Ameen Moshin from Dagenham also shared a link to an English-language propaganda video of the extremists.

Ameen, who was holding a machete on his profile photo, was found guilty of supporting a banned organization, encouraging terrorism and disseminating a terrorist publication. Agents searched his home in June and took all kinds of stuff confiscated, including mobile phones. After investigation, he was arrested in October.

Ameen was already on the authorities in the picture. In 2013, his house was searched because he wanted to possible exits to the Middle East. He proved a ticket, carry a one-way ticket to Istanbul. The plane was leaving that day.