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| Two residents of Chechnya convicted of trying to leave for Syria |
| 2022-08-09 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] The Gudermes court of Chechnya sentenced two local residents to two years and eight months in a strict regime colony, accused of intending to leave for Syria and participate in an illegal armed formation there. The Supreme Court of the republic toughened the punishment, assigning them a part of the term to serve in prison. As follows from the materials of the criminal case, Islam Mutaev and Tamerlan Albekov could not leave for Syria due to circumstances beyond their control. In court, they fully admitted their guilt, but refused to testify, referring to Article 51 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, which allows them not to testify against themselves and their relatives. They have been in custody since March 2021, Kavkaz.Realii reported on August 7. The court in Gudermes handed down the verdict to Islam Mutaev and Tamerlan Albekov on April 4, follows from the case file on the court's website. It also states that Mutaev and Albekov were charged under part 1 of article 30 - part 2 of article 208 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (preparation to participate in an illegal armed formation on the territory of a foreign state for purposes contrary to the interests of the Russian Federation), and that the verdict was appealed. The prosecutor filed a complaint against the verdict. He demanded that the convicts serve part of the term in prison. The lawyer of Mutaev and Albekov asked that the verdict be left unchanged. Following the consideration of the complaint, the Supreme Court of Chechnya decided to change the sentence and appointed the convicts to serve one (first) year in prison, follows from the information on the website of the court. The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that in December 2021, a military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Ali Yahyaev, a native of Chechnya, to five years in a strict regime colony, finding him guilty of trying to go to Syria to participate in a terrorist organization. |
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