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Court in Yessentuki arrests member of terrorist cell in prison

2024-09-26

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] A member of a terrorist cell created by convicts in a Kalmykia penal colony has been arrested, the website of the Essentuki City Court reported on September 25.

“Based on the results of the court hearing, the court came to the conclusion that it was appropriate to choose a preventive measure in the form of detention for a period of 1 month and 4 days, until October 28, 2024, against the citizen,” the statement said.

According to the preliminary investigation, in 2013, a terrorist group called "Ahl al-Sunna wal-Jamaat" was created in the colony, which included more than 100 convicts. The members of the terrorist group spread extremist ideology, recruited new convicts, and also established the rules of the Sharia court on the territory of the colony.

Criminal cases have been opened against several dozen members and leaders of the terrorist cell, some of whom have already been sentenced to various terms of imprisonment.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, on August 23, in IK-19 in the Volgograd region, four criminals serving their sentences there took eight employees of the colony and four prisoners hostage. The attackers demanded $2 million, a helicopter and an air corridor to Georgia.

As a result of the emergency, four FSIN employees were killed, one of whom died in hospital.

The Rosgvardia special forces eliminated the criminals and rescued the hostages. Law enforcement officers restored order in the penal colony. The penal colony is currently operating as normal.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation has opened a criminal case under two articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

Posted by:badanov

#3 transliterations lead to variations always /em>

Dealing with foreign names in a database is a persistent and vexing problem. Last time I poked at the problem, the two main approaches seemed to be the Soundex algorithm which tries to match words by their English sounds or phonemes, and the Levenshtein distance which uses the number of operations to convert one text string into another. Neither seems ideal for transliterated names. I wonder what techniques our intelligence services use.

The world would go around much faster than it does if people would just speak English like everyone else.

Posted by: SteveS 2024-09-26 23:30

#2 An unusual case. Buddhist make up half the Republic's population. There are some Christians and at last report there were only 5 percent Muslims. The presence of Kalmykia penal colony is a well kept secret, which is now out.

Posted by: S MAI 2024-09-26 18:18

#1 I feel there ought to be more about who Ahl al-Sunna wal-Jamaat is in the archives or out there on the internet, given it goes back at least to 2013, but I can’t find it. Possibly it is spelt differently — transliterations lead to variations always —but the possibilities I tried lead nowhere useful. Help!

Posted by: trailing wife 2024-09-26 08:58

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