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Bangladesh born woman jailed in UK

Update : 13 Dec 2014, 03:43 AM

A Bangladesh born woman has been jailed for five years and three months in London for promoting terrorism on Facebook.

Runa Khan had previously admitted inciting terrorism in Syria, according to a BBC report.

Khan, 35, had posted a picture of a suicide vest and unwittingly passed details of a route into the country to an undercover police officer.

During sentencing, Kingston Crown Court heard the police had found photos of Khan's children holding guns and swords.

Judge Peter Birts QC said the "only fair interpretation" of those pictures was that Khan had intended to radicalise others.

In an interview with BBC Newsnight, she said: "I was posting up my belief."

She said the UK was "the last place I would want to live in... the majority of people with my mindset are actually behind bars because they don't want to stay in Britain".

Khan added when she talked about jihad she was not suggesting killing innocent people.

She told the programme: "I have always said I don't believe in going and blowing myself up in a shopping centre where there are going to be innocent children.

"And when I spoke about suicide missions, I only spoke about it because it's a much feared war tactic, which should only be used in a battlefield, not anywhere else."

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