Tahawwur Rana: District Judge Harry Leinenweber

Tahawwur Rana Dept: CHICAGO -- A Pakistani-born Canadian citizen was sentenced to 14 years in prison Thursday for providing material support to overseas terrorism, including a Pakistani group whose 2008 attacks in Mumbai, India, left more than 160 people dead, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Jurors in 2011 convicted Rana of providing support for the Pakistani group, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and for supporting a never-carried-out plot to attack a Danish newspaper that printed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in 2005. The cartoons angered many Muslims because pictures of the prophet are prohibited in Islam and tom Gianni / The Associated Press In this courtroom sketch, attorney Patrick Blegen and his client, Tahawwur Rana, are shown during Rana s sentencing in federal court Thursday in Chicago. Tahawwur Rana did not address the court before U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber imposed the sentence, and did not react afterward, but his defence attorneys said the judge was right to reject prosecutors' arguments Rana deserved a stiffer sentence because the charges were related to terrorism. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.