Seven years ago in Syria, a federal district court in the United States sentenced a former combatant of the radical IS = Islamic State to life imprisonment for being involved in the murder of journalists Kenji Goto and Haruna Yukawa. rice field.

Alexander Kote, a former fighter of the radical organization IS and deprived of British nationality, was killed in Syria in 2015 when journalists Kenji Goto and Haruna Yukawa were detained and killed. He was accused of murder conspiracy for being involved in the murder of four Americans from to 2015.



Defendant Kote admitted all charges last September.



A federal district court in Virginia, southern United States, sentenced Kote to life imprisonment on the 29th.



Former combatant El Shafi El Sheikh, who was also charged in the case, was sentenced to sentence in August after a jury trial in the same federal district court ruled that he was guilty. I am.