In a federal courtroom, Mohammad Sharifullah was sentenced to twenty years for providing material support to ISIS-K, the Afghan branch of the Islamic State, in connection with a deadly 2021 bombing in Kabul. The jury, unable to reach full consensus on his direct role in the attack itself, nonetheless found him culpable enough in sustaining the organization to warrant two decades of imprisonment. The case surfaces a question as old as collective violence: where does the act end and the enabling of it begin, and how does a society assign weight to each?
Afghan Sentenced to 20 Years for ISIS-K Support in 2021 Kabul Attack
Multiple people were killed in the 2021 Kabul bombing attack that led to Sharifullah's prosecution.
Crime & Justice