Ifthekar Jaman

Ifthekar Jaman was a Bangladeshi-British man who was one of the first British fighters to travel to Syria and join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in 2013. He was notable for his posts on social media about his life in ISIL and for persuading other men he knew from his hometown to join, before he was killed in December 2013 at age 23. Since his death his two brothers have been repeatedly jailed for terrorism offenses.

Early life Jaman was born in Portsmouth, England of first-generation Bangladeshi immigrant parents who ran a restaurant He has a sister and two brothers. He was popular with his non-Muslim colleagues at work.

Jaman told Shiraz Maher, in an interview in November 2013, Twitter and Instagram, calling it "five star jihad"

He had 3,000 Twitter followers and answered questions on Ask.fm, telling one user it was not necessary to learn Arabic before traveling to Syria.

Death and legacy On December 15, 2013, Tuhin was also convicted of preparing to travel to Syria himself. A counterterrorism police officer said the brothers had not had plans to attack the UK. They were sentenced to six years each in prison. Mustakim Jaman changed his name to Isaac Idris. In 2021, Isaac Idris was jailed again for eight months after pleading guilty to eleven breaches of a Part 4 Terrorist Notification Order under Section 54 of the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008, including failing to tell police details of his finances, his phone number and his email addresses. In 2023, Moses Idris was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for not telling the police about a phone number.