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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Resident of Stavropol received nine years for financing terrorism

2023-05-23

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[KavkazUzel] A court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Stavropol resident Yusup Ismailov to nine years in prison for raising money to finance terrorist activities.

The " Caucasian Knot " wrote that on June 22, 2021, the FSB department for the Stavropol Territory reported on the detention of eight alleged members of the At-Takfir wal-Hijra

...also in our archives spelt Al-Takfeer wal Hijra, the mocking name given to Jama'at al-Muslimin, a takfiri spinoff of the Muslim Brotherhood that’s been around since 1971. It’s the original home of Ayman Al-Zawahiri and his Al Qaeda buddies, back in Egypt particularly known for requiring members to cut off all contact with non-member friends and relations...

extremist organization banned in Russia*. On July 22, 2021, it became known that on suspicion of involvement in an attempted terrorist attack on the territory of the police department in Kislovodsk, seven more residents of Dagestan, Karachay-Cherkessia, and Stavropol were detained , whom the investigation considers members of an extremist religious association banned in Russia, among them was Yusup Ismailov.

The Southern District Military Court has sentenced Yusup Ismailov, a resident of Stavropol, accused of assisting terrorist activities, Interfax reported today, citing the press service of the FSB Directorate for the Stavropol Territory.

"It was established that the person involved, being a member of the cell of the international religious extremist organization At-Takfir wal-Hijra* banned in the Russian Federation, collected money in order to finance terrorist activities," the report said.

According to the investigation and the court, Ismailov also shared the ideas of the Islamic State organization, the report says. The court sentenced him to nine years in prison with the first three years in prison, and the rest of the term - in a strict regime colony with restriction of liberty for six months. Ismailov is also prohibited from administering websites for two years.

As follows from the case file on the court website, the case against Ismailov was received by the Southern District Military Court on April 5. three court sessions were held, the last of which was scheduled for today.

The organization "At-Takfir wal-Hijra"* (Accusation of unbelief and Hijra) appeared in Egypt and spread in the North Caucasus, especially in Kabardino-Balkaria in 1997-1998. Supporters of the organization belong to the Salafi trend in Islam and are distinguished by strict requirements for fellow believers. They consider an apostate anyone who does not pray five times a prayer, even if such a person calls himself a Muslim, and also insist on the inadmissibility of working in the structure of Russian law enforcement agencies, the "Caucasian Knot" material reads "Kabardino-Balkaria: On the way to disaster. Preconditions for armed performances in Nalchik on October 13-14, 2005."

Since the At-Takfir wal-Hijra group* was recognized as extremist and banned in Russia in 2010, its members have been repeatedly detained in different regions of the country, a British journalist, creator of the project "Chechens in Syria", analyst Joanna Parashchuk.

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