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| Stavropol Resident Convicted of ISIS Recruitment |
| 2022-06-02 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] A court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Stavropol resident Anzor Laipanov to five years in prison for recruiting a minor to IS and publicly justifying terrorism. The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don has sentenced Anzor Laipanov, a resident of the North Caucasus, accused of assisting terrorist activities and publicly justifying terrorism, the press service of the FSB for the Stavropol Territory reported. "In 2020, Laipanov persuaded a minor resident of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug to travel to Syria to participate in the activities of the Islamic State international terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation, and also posted publications and images on the social network publicly justifying terrorism," Interfax quoted department's message. The Stavropol citizen was sentenced to five years in a penal colony, and also deprived of the right to administer websites for a period of one year, Kommersant Rostov-on-Don reported with reference to the department. The UFSB emphasized that the "softness of the sentence" was due to the fact that at the "moment of the crime" Laipanov was a minor, the publication notes. The Southern District Military Court delivered a verdict in the case today, before that 11 court hearings took place, follows from the case file on the court website. There were no comments from the convict or his official representatives regarding the court verdict. The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that in August 2021, a military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced a resident of the Stavropol Territory, Ikboljon Shamshidinov, to 10 years in prison , finding him guilty of justifying terrorism and recruiting acquaintances into the ranks of terrorist organizations banned in Russia "Islamic State". and Jabhat al-Nusra. |
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