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A resident of Kabardino-Balkaria received 10.5 years for helping Syrian militants
2023-02-03
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[KavkazUzel] A court in Rostov-on-Don appointed Tamara Baragunova, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, who washed clothes and cooked food for militants in Syria, to 10.5 years in prison.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don found Tamara Baragunova, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, guilty in the case of participation in an illegal armed group, Interfax reported today.

According to the investigation and the court, in June 2015, Baragunova joined an illegal armed group in Syria, which is part of the terrorist organization "Caucasus Emirate"
...Caucasus Emirate was the Chechnyan jihadi group linked to Al Qaeda. But in 2015 the majority of the jihadis transferred their allegiance to ISIS as Caucasus Province (Vilayat Kavkaz), then transferred themselves and their families to the ISIS caliphate in Syria — so the question is whether the lady should be filed under ISIS or Al Nusra...
banned in Russia. "Baragunova performed the functions of an ordinary member of the organization, assisting in the treatment of wounded militants, in washing linen and preparing food for members of this organization," the message on the Telegram channel of the Southern District Military Court says.

In 2016, she left Syria and lived in Turkey and Egypt, she was detained on December 9, 2021. The court sentenced Tamara Baragunova to 10 years and six months in prison in a penal colony.

The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that a military court in Rostov-on-Don in August 2021 sentenced Zalim Atalikov, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria , to four years in a strict regime colony, finding him guilty of trying to join Syrian militants.
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