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| Astrakhan citizen convicted of trying to join Syrian militants | |
| 2022-11-24 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] A court in Rostov-on-Don found Dzhasur Ismatov, who was detained at the Mineralnye Vody airport, guilty of trying to become a member of a terrorist organization and sentenced him to five years in prison. The Southern District Military Court has sentenced a resident of the Astrakhan region, Jasur Ismatov, who planned to join the members of a terrorist organization in Syria, the FSB reported. "In 2021, Ismatov began to correspond with one of the members of the Hayat Tahrir ash-Sham
In December 2021, Ismatov was detained by the Federal Security Service for the Stavropol Territory at the Mineralnye Vody airport while trying to fly to Turkey. He was charged with preparing to participate in a terrorist organization and an armed formation. The court sentenced Ismatov to five years in a strict regime colony, with the first two and a half years in prison, the agency said. As follows from the case file on the court website, the materials of the case against Ismatov were received by the Southern District Military Court on September 23, six court sessions were held, and the verdict was delivered today. The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that the Southern District Military Court sentenced Nozim Rustamov, a resident of the Astrakhan region, to two years in prison, seeing propaganda of terrorism in a video he posted on the Internet. | |
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