WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 03: (L to R) Diane Foley and John Foley of the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation; Rachel Briggs of Hostage US; David Rohde of Reuters; producer Eva Lipman; and Brian Oakes, Film Director of Jim: The James Foley Story; participate in a post-screening panel discussion during the James W. Foley Freedom Awards at The Newseum on May 3, 2016 in Washington, DC. The James W. Foley Legacy Foundation was created to continue the legacy of slain conflict journalist James Foley who was mudered by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on August 19, 2014 while reporting on the Syrian Civil War. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images)
  • Former British citizen El Shafee Elsheikh, 33, was convicted by a federal jury on eight charges relating to his participation in a brutal hostage-taking scheme that resulted in the deaths of four American citizens, as well as the deaths of British and Japanese nationals.
  • Elsheikh and two other ISIS members supervised the terrorist organization’s jails and detention facilities where the hostages were held.
  • Elsheikh faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison. 
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