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Written by: Cheng Yihua
2019-11-27 19:35
Last updated: 2019-11-27 19:37A 33-year-old woman in Indiana, United States, pleaded guilty to terrorism financing in court on November 25. From 2014 to 2015, she went to Hong Kong three times and smuggled US $ 30,000 worth of cash, gold and precious stones for the purpose of Funding the extremist organization ISIS.
The woman and her brother, Samantha Elhassani, have turned to ISIS. During November 2014 to August 2015, she made three trips to Hong Kong to transport cash, gold and gemstones to Syria without reporting to customs.
She was also previously charged with conspiring to provide material support to ISIS, assisting and instigating others to provide material support to ISIS, but she has not pleaded guilty to the charges. The Daily Mail stated that she now confessed to financing terrorism in the hope that the prosecution would abandon other more serious charges.
In 2015, she and her children, her husband, and her brother entered Syria through Turkey and into the area controlled by ISIS. She said through a representative lawyer that she had spent two terrible years in Raqqa, Syria, and she later moved to refugee camps with her children. Her husband died in 2017 while fighting for ISIS.
Her lawyer argued that the defendant had been forced to Syria, but the prosecution questioned the defendant's knowledge and decided to take her children to dangerous areas.
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