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Seven people convicted in Karachay-Cherkessia for involvement with extremists
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

The AUE group translates into United Criminal Prisoners.

A prison gang, presumably with a nexus to local organized crime.
[KavkazUzel] The convicts were found guilty of participating in AUE and received sentences ranging from three and a half to seven years in prison.

The court established that one of the convicted persons created a separate group of the extremist association "Arestantskogo ugol'nogo edinstva" (AUE). In order to establish his criminal influence on the territory of Karachay-Cherkessia, he recruited six local residents into the group and assigned each of them a role and functional responsibilities.

The Khabez District Court found the defendants guilty of participating in the activities of an extremist organization and extortion (Part 2 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code and Parts 1 and 2 of Article 163 of the Criminal Code of Russia. "They were sentenced to imprisonment for terms ranging from three-three years and six months to seven years in a general regime penal colony," Interfax writes, citing the press service of the republic's courts.

Each defendant was also given an additional punishment in the form of a one-year ban on participating in public associations, as well as a one-year restriction of freedom, the press service added.

Earlier, the " Caucasian Knot " wrote that in early February in Zheleznovodsk  a local resident was sentenced to one and a half years in a maximum security penal colony for tattoos with the AUE symbol.

In January, a court in Sochi  fined a local resident, finding that a photo on a social network with an eight-pointed star on a cake he made promoted the AUE* movement.


Posted by: badanov 2025-03-08
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