Man convicted for online terrorist messages

Shafi Mohammed Saleem has been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for encouraging terrorism by posting a number of images online promoting ISIS. The 28-year-old used in excess of 20 Twitter and Instagram handles to share his poisonous pro-ISIS messages between 2016 and 2017, and was arrested at his home in East London on 19 April 2017 after the Metropolitan Police launched an intelligence-led investigation into his online activities. Commander Dean Haydon, of the Met's Counter Terrorism Command, said: “I cannot underplay the importance of bringing before the courts people who tweet subversive messages promoting Daesh. Every tweet has the potential to radicalise vulnerable people. “Arresting and bringing to justice people who send messages like Saleem did is just one of the ways that counter terrorism officers nationally are tackling the threat from terrorist propaganda online. The national Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit also scours the internet daily for material like this and by working with hundreds of social media platforms globally, it has ensured the removal of more than 300,000 terrorist and extremist posts in the past seven years.”