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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

MMA fighter Yakubov detained for publicly justifying terrorism

2023-10-23

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] Mixed style fighter Ilyas Yakubov was detained on October 22 on charges of publicly justifying terrorism. Izvestia reported this

The athlete was detained by employees of the capital's headquarters of the Russian Investigative Committee. According to investigators, the detainee recently recorded a video in which he justified the need to use terrorist methods, and then published it publicly on a banned social network. After this, the athlete was put on the federal wanted list, and he was soon detained.

“The investigation intends to petition the Chertanovsky court to select a preventive measure in the form of detention,” the Investigative Committee reported.

Yakubov is 31 years old. He made his debut fight at the professional level in 2013, defeating Ravil Risaev at the Pankration Black Sea Cup tournament. He entered the octagon for the second time two years later in the ACB league, losing to fighter Vitaly Slipenko by technical knockout. In the third battle, Yakubov was also defeated. The fighter participated in battles in various organizations in the period 2016–2020. Yakubov’s last fight was a fight with Roman Karasev at the Series 49 MMA tournament in February 2022, in which he won.

Athletistic adds:

On Sunday, Telegram channel 112 reported that Yakubov was accused of publicly justifying terrorism. The 31-year-old athlete made a video on which he superimposed the statements of terrorist Shamil Basayev,

...a.k.a.Shamil Basaev, Shamil Salmanovich Basayev, his kunya "Abu Idris" and Emir Abdullah Shamil Abu-Idris (1965-2006). Chechen warlord in the post-Soviet Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, linked to Al Qaeda. After his death it became the Caucasus Emirate. In 2015 most of the hard boys changed their allegiance to the local Islamic State affiliate, Vilayat Kavkaz, whereupon a majority chose to escape the Russians hunting them by making hijra to the caliphate in Syria, where those not dead yet remain. Some of his projects were the 2004 Beslan school siege and the 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis. In 2003, the US State Department designated three Chechen groups affiliated with Shamil Basaev as terrorists, accusing them of receiving millions of dollars from Al Qaeda...

responsible for organizing terrorist attacks in Moscow, Beslan and other cities. Yakubov later deleted the video. According to the channel, the capital’s investigative committee intends to ask the court to arrest the athlete; under the article, he faces a heavy fine or imprisonment of five to seven years.

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