DENVER—A Colorado man convicted of providing material support to a U.S.-designated terrorist group in his native Uzbekistan was sentenced on Aug. 30 to 11 years in prison, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Denver said.
Jamshid Muhtorov, 42, lived in the United States as a political refugee from Uzbekistan, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. He was convicted in June of trying to smuggle smartphones and other electronic equipment to the Islamic Jihad Union (IJU), a Pakistan-based group that opposes secular rule in Uzbekistan and seeks to install a government based on Islamic law.
