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| Four prisoners of the Stavropol colony convicted of participation in the IS |
| 2022-02-08 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] A military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced four inmates of the Stavropol colony to lengthy prison terms for participation in the Islamic State terrorist organization. In May 2020, Akhmed Musalaev, who is serving a sentence in a colony in the Stavropol Territory, recorded an audio message about joining the ranks of IS and sent it to a member of a terrorist organization for subsequent transmission to the leader. From May to June 2020, Akhmed Musalaev persuaded Akhmed Tokaev, Said Mazhaev and Gasan Magomedov, who were serving sentences with him, to participate in IS, the Southern District Military Court established. Then, according to the investigation, Akhmed Musalaev created an IS cell on the territory of the colony. In the cell, Musalaev carried out general leadership, among his tasks was to maintain communication with the IS member in Syria, he also had to report on the activities of the cell. Tokaev and Mazhaev were responsible for searching for possible candidates for joining a terrorist organization, and Magomedov was responsible for raising money, TASS reported today with reference to the press service of the court. All four were found guilty of committing crimes under article 205.4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Organization of a terrorist community and participation in it", article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Organization of the activities of a terrorist organization and participation in the activities of such an organization." Akhmed Musalaev was also found guilty under article 205.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Assistance to terrorist activities." The convicts, depending on the role and degree of guilt of each, were assigned the following terms: Akhmed Musalaev: 17 years in prison, Akhmed Tokaev: 13.5 years, Gasan Magomedov and Said Mazhaev: 2.5 years each, he said today with reference to the press court service "Interfax". Earlier, the "Caucasian Knot" wrote about other cases when prisoners in the colony were convicted for participation in a terrorist community. So, on August 30, 2021, a military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Robert Emirgamzaev, a native of the Kizlyarsky district of Dagestan, to five and a half years in a special regime colony, finding him guilty of participating in an IS cell in a Kalmyk colony. And on June 22, 2021, the court sentenced Michael Labazanov to 15 years in prison, finding him guilty of involvement in a terrorist organization for recruiting prisoners there while serving a criminal sentence in the Stavropol Territory. |
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