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| Resident of Karachay-Cherkessia fined for justifying terrorism |
| 2022-02-22 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don found Ramazan Appakov, a resident of Karachay-Cherkessia, guilty of justifying terrorism and fined him 300,000 rubles. Ramazan Appakov, a 22-year-old native of Kislovodsk, Stavropol Territory, was accused of publicly justifying terrorism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of Russia). "It was established that in November 2018, while in the village of Uchkeken, Malokarachaevsky district of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, the defendant posted on a public page in one of the social networks a video file containing calls for terrorist activities and statements on the recognition of the ideology and practice of terrorism as correct, in need of support and imitation," an employee of the press service of the Southern District Military Court told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent on February 18. Appakov was found guilty, he was fined 300 thousand rubles. Appakov did not appeal the verdict, and it entered into force, the press service of the court reported. The "Caucasian Knot" has no comments yet from Ramazan Appakov and his representatives regarding the verdict. It should be noted that the maximum punishment under this article is imprisonment for a term of five to seven years. Earlier, the "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that on February 18, the Southern District Military Court sentenced a resident of Dagestan , Ali Aliyev, to a large fine, finding him guilty of publicly justifying terrorism. Resident of Dagestan sentenced to fine for justifying terrorism [KavkazUzel] A military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Dagestan resident Ali Aliyev to a large fine, finding him guilty of publicly justifying terrorism. Ali Aliyev, a resident of Makhachkala, was accused of publicly justifying terrorism using the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of Russia). Punishment under this article provides for both a fine in the amount of 300,000 to one million rubles and imprisonment for a term of five to seven years. "It was established that in 2020, while in Makhachkala, the defendant posted text comments on a social network containing a positive assessment of the actions of members of illegal armed groups and international terrorist organizations," the press service of the Southern District Military Court told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. The defendant was found guilty, he was fined 400 thousand rubles, however, taking into account the period of detention, as well as being under house arrest, the amount of the fine was reduced to 300 thousand rubles. Aliyev did not appeal the verdict and it entered into force, the press service of the court reported. The "Caucasian Knot" does not yet have any comments by Ali Aliyev and his representatives regarding the verdict. |
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