Overview
- Justice Corina Dario heard sentencing arguments Friday as prosecutors urged 16 years and the defence asked for 12.
- Jamal Borhot, 35, was convicted in December on three counts of participation in a terrorist group.
- The court found he traveled from Calgary to Turkey in 2013, crossed into Syria for nearly a year, trained and fought with ISIS, assumed a command role, made videos, and attempted to recruit others.
- Crown prosecutor Kent Brown emphasized denunciation, deterrence and the totality principle to support a 16-year term, while the defence cited cousin Hussein Borhot’s 12-year sentence and argued the conduct involved enemy combatants.
- The prosecution followed RCMP charges laid in 2020 and a 40-day trial with closed national‑security sessions, during which a defence bid to stay the case over delays was rejected.