A Düsseldorf court in Germany found five men guilty of being members of a local ISIS cell that took orders from a prominent leader of the organization in Afghanistan. The men, aged 25 to 34, with Tajik citizenship, were sentenced to lengthy prison terms.

The longest sentence was 9 years and 6 months in prison for Sunnah Allah Q. His middle name was not published in accordance with German confidentiality rules. He was also convicted of conspiring to kill a person who publicly criticized Islam. The authorities prevented the attack. Other men, Muhammad Ali S., Aziz B., Farhodshwa K. and Kamarin B., were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 44 months to 8 and a half years for membership in a terrorist organization, and some were convicted for involvement in plans for premeditated murder in Albania, which was subsequently annulled. Another man, Rafsan B., was convicted by the same court last year of membership in the Islamic State, funding a German cell and supporting two organized attacks and sentenced to seven years in prison.