In the United States, an Islamic State recruiter was sentenced to 19 years in prison, Telegram channel Directorate 4 reports.

A New York court found 30-year-old American Cinmia Amera Cesar, better known as Umm Nutella, guilty of supporting IS, obstruction of justice and fleeing from justice.

Cesar had been spreading IS propaganda on social media since 2016. She supported jihad and recruited new supporters for the group. She also tried helping five U.S. citizens travel abroad to join IS.

That same year, Cesar was detained at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York while attempting to fly abroad to join the group. The woman pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with the investigation. However, later, while on bail, she violated the terms of her release: she resumed contacts with the people she previously informed the security services about, and tried to delete more than a thousand messages of correspondence with Islamists and lied to the investigators and the court. In March 2019, Cesar pleaded guilty again, this time to obstruction of justice, and received a total of 4 years in prison.

However, the appeals court deemed the punishment “excessively lenient” and sent the case for review. In 2020, after being released on 8-year supervision, she again breached the conditions by communicating with IS militants, hiding her activity and removing evidence.

In 2021, after learning of her retrial, Cesar escaped by removing her tracking bracelet and headed to New Mexico to leave the country. Along the way, she tried to contact an IS associate to travel to Afghanistan via Russia, but she was unsuccessful and was detained two days later.

Even in the detention centre, she kept breaking the rules and contacting radicals.