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A 17-year old teen Ali Shukri Amin received a sentence to 11 years in jail for advising Tweeter users on using cryptocurrency, and especially bitcoin, to fund ISIL militant’s activity. 

According to the official statement of the US Department of Justice, Ali Shukri Amin was sentenced to 136 month in prison and a lifetime supervised release and monitoring his internet activity for assistance to the ISIL.

American teenager from Manassas, Virginia, was accused for using “social media to provide material support to ISIL.” He pleaded guilty for providing advice on how to use Bitcoin to fund ISIL activity through his Twitter account. His Twitter called @AmreekiWitness had over 4,000 followers and more than 7,000 tweets.

Amin also confessed that he has helped Reza Niknejad, a 18-years old  Prince William County resident to join ISIL in January 2015, who was charged with providing material support to a terrorist group and “conspiring to kill and injure people abroad”.

Federal prosecutors demanded US District Court to sentence a teen to 15 years in jail, but U.S. District Judge Claude M. Hilton of the Eastern District of Virginia has mitigated the punishment. 

U.S. Attorney Boente said on the day of the official adjudgement: 

“Today’s sentencing demonstrates that those who use social media as a tool to provide support and resources to ISIL will be identified and prosecuted with no less vigilance than those who travel to take up arms with ISIL.”

He added:

“The Department of Justice will continue to pursue those that travel to fight against the United States and our allies, as well as those individuals that recruit others on behalf of ISIL in the homeland.”