 A court in the city of Vladimir found a Syrian student guilty of promoting Islamic extremism in Russia and ordered him to pay a fine of 10,000 rubles ($355), Itar-Tass reported Friday. After returning from his homeland in March 2004 Abdolkhalek Samir Mejed, who studies at Vladimir University, brought a disk with a recording in Arabic dedicated to rebel military activities in Chechnya and containing calls for extremist actions in Russia, the Prosecutor's Office told Itar-Tass. He passed the film on to his fellow students, nationals of Syria, Sudan and Morocco.
An expert committee found that the film contained calls to "change Russia's constitutional system by force, to violate its territorial integrity and disrupt its security, to form and support illegal armed units, incite ethnic and religious hatred," Itar-Tass reports. The court found Abdolkhalek Samir Mejed guilty and ordered him to pay a fine of 10,000 rubles. The student could have faced up to three years in prison for his actions.
| What a dumbass. Shoulda sent him to Siberia. I understand Khabarovsk is nice this time of year... |
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