Highest sentence so far for storming Capitol: 18 years in prison for ‘Oath Keepers’ founder

An American far-right has received the highest sentence yet of all rioters convicted of storming the US Capitol building on January 6, 2021. Stewart Rhodes, who founded the ultra-nationalist Oath Keepers militia, was sentenced to 18 years in prison for, among other things sedition and other crimes. Prosecutors had demanded 25 years.

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