The Criminal Court has slapped Mohamed Ameen with a prison sentence of 27 years.

Ameen who is currently in custody regarding two terrorism-related cases, was convicted and sentenced during a court hearing held on Wednesday.

Ameen was sentenced to 27 years behind bars on two charges, however, since the four years he spent in jail is considered as time served, he has 23 years, 11 months and nine days left to serve.

In its charge sheet, the state prosecutors accused Ameen of being the leader of a terrorist organization and for conspiracy to carry out an act of terrorism.

He was found to have recruited and sent Maldivians to fight in the civil war in Syria, conspired to recruit Maldivians to fight for the Islamic State in Khorasan Province of Afghanistan after the Syria conflict ended, sending a Maldivian to Afghanistan to operate as the leader of the Maldivian cell in ISIS Khorasan in October 2018, operating as the leader of IS in the Maldives and propagating a specific religious ideology.

The Fuvahmulah City native is the first Maldivian to have been listed as a terrorist by the United States Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control.