Federal Appeals Court upholds convicted terrorist’s 43-year prison sentence

The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a 43-year prison sentence for Hysen Sherifi. He was convicted in North Carolina in 2011 on charges linked to a terrorism conspiracy. A trial judge had cut two years off Sherifi’s original 45-year sentence after a 2019 US Supreme Court decision. The high court had ruled that a law used to convict Sherifi was unconstitutional under certain circumstances.