
Man Who Shared Pro-Hamas Posts Online Spared Jail for Terror Offence
Published on April 10, 2024
A man who admitted to a terror charge after posting support for Hamas on social media has been spared jail and was handed a suspended sentence. Ozain Yousef, 23, of Mexborough Place, Leeds, was sentenced at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday to 16 weeks’ imprisonment, suspended for two years. Yousef was ordered to pay £85 in costs and a victims surcharge of £154. He was also ordered to complete 100 hours of unpaid work. Police arrested Yousef on Nov. 24, 2023 on suspicion of supporting a banned organisation after receiving a report that Yousef had posted extremist material in support of Hamas on social media platform X. He had made the posts following Hamas’s deadly Oct. 7 attack on Israel....
