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Glorification of Basayev's image resulted in a criminal case for a citizen of the Russian Federation and Abkhazia
2025-03-29
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] A citizen of the Russian Federation and Abkhazia was detained in Sochi after publishing content that created glorified images of members of Chechen illegal armed groups, in particular, Shamil Basayev.

A citizen of Russia and the Republic of Abkhazia, born in 1988, involved in the distribution of terrorist materials on the Internet, has been detained, security forces reported.

According to the FSB, the detainee published materials on his Telegram channel justifying and promoting terrorist activity "by creating a glorified image of the leaders of illegal armed groups on the territory of the Chechen Republic from 1991 to 2006, in particular, the terrorist Shamil Basayev." A case has been opened against the detainee under Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public calls for terrorist activity, public justification of terrorism or propaganda of terrorism). The penalty under this article provides for up to seven years of imprisonment, Interfax writes, citing the FSB Public Relations Center.

On August 7, 1999, more than a thousand armed fighters under the leadership of Shamil Basayev  and Jordanian  Amir Khattab entered Dagestan from Chechnya. Fighting continued in the republic for more than a month, including on September 5, when about 2,000 fighters again crossed the Chechen-Dagestan border and occupied villages and heights in the Novolaksky District.
At the time they called themselves the Republic of Ichkeria, which morphed into the Al Qaeda-linked Caucasus Emirate, which eventually swore allegiance to the Islamic State, changing its name to Vilyat Kavkaz. I suppose for our purposes current members should be filed under ISIS…
Only on September 15, 1999, the Minister of Defense announced that Dagestan had been completely liberated, according to the " Kavkazsky Knot " report " Militant Invasion of Dagestan (1999)."

Investigators regularly report detentions and arrests of alleged former members of Basayev and Khattab's group. In December, the court remanded  in custody Khamidulla Yapov and Minkail Magamadov, accused of involvement in attacks by Basayev and Khattab's militants on servicemen in Chechnya.

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Posted by:badanov

#4  *golf clap* Bravo, Zenobia F!
Posted by: trailing wife   2025-03-29 16:44  

#3  "Always after me Book, the poltroons!
Lurid, captioned in beautiful runes;
Sure, immutable truth,"
Added Paddy, "forsooth,
Are me Holy M------- Cartoons."
Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452   2025-03-29 13:55  

#2  That's only when you or I show them, Grom.
Posted by: Mullah Richard    2025-03-29 06:46  

#1  I thought images were against Islam?
Posted by: Grom the Affective   2025-03-29 03:01  

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