A jury convicted El Shafee Elsheikh, 34, in April of conspiracy charges in the kidnapping and murder of journalists and humanitarian workers.
An Islamic State militant who was one of the ringleaders torturing international hostages, demanding ransom payments from their families and broadcasting videotaped executions to the world was sentenced Friday to life in prison.U.S. prosecutors said El Shafee Elsheikh was one of the three “ISIS Beatles,” a group of masked terrorists known for their British accents and brutal executions of journalists and humanitarian-relief workers during the Islamic State’s rise in Syria.
Alexanda Kotey, another member of the group who was captured with Elsheikh in 2018, pleaded guilty in 2021 and was sentenced this year to life in prison. The third member of the “Beatles,” Mohammed Emwazi, who was the masked executioner on the Islamic State’s chilling propaganda videos, was killed in a U.S. airstrike in 2015.or that he had any role in the torture and execution of hostages, calling him a “simple ISIS fighter.
“These series of crimes are as grave, as sadistic and as reprehensible as it gets,” Parekh said. “To paraphrase a line in Dante’s Inferno, we lack the vocabulary of such pain.”He added that “Elsheikh remains defiantly remorseless and unrepentant” and “is the highest-ranking and most notorious ISIS member to have ever faced trial in the United States.”
The judge sentenced Elsheikh, who was born in Sudan, raised in Britain, and later stripped of his British citizenship, to eight concurrent life sentences. Ellis found that Elsheikh knew or could have reasonably foreseen that Mueller would be sexually abused by other members of the Islamic State; that Elsheikh made false statements to the court when he claimed the FBI lured him into speaking to law enforcement without an attorney; and that Elsheikh was a leader in the hostage-taking conspiracy.
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