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| Prisoner from Stavropol received a new term for the IS oath |
| 2023-06-29 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] A court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Nikita Potselov to 10.5 years in prison, taking into account the previous sentence. According to the investigation and the court, while in the Stavropol colony, he took the oath of allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State*. Nikita Potselov, a prisoner from a colony in Stavropol, was convicted of participating in the activities of a terrorist organization , the press service of the Southern District Military Court reported today. According to the investigation and the court, Potselov, while in a colony in Stavropol, “under the influence of another person, decided to take part in the activities of the banned international terrorist organization Islamic State and on February 18, 2021 took an oath of allegiance to the head of the organization, writing it down on a mobile phone and sending over the internet. The defendant was found guilty and he was sentenced according to the cumulative sentences of the Kuzminsky District Court of Moscow and the present sentence in the form of imprisonment for a term of 10 years and 6 months in a correctional colony of a special regime with the first three years in prison," says the telegram channel of the Southern district military court. Potselov's case was received by the Southern District Military Court on March 15, ten court sessions were held. The verdict was delivered today, follows from the case card on the court's website. There were no comments from Nikita Potselov or his official representatives regarding the court verdict. As follows from the case file on the website of the Kuzminsky District Court of Moscow, Potselov was convicted under an article on drug trafficking, the verdict came into force on September 16, 2020. A court in Moscow sentenced Potselov to 6.5 years in a strict regime colony in a drug trafficking case. The unserved part of the sentence was 2 years and 9 months, Interfax reported today. The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that a court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Nikolai Glazunov to 22 years in prison for swearing an oath to the leader of the IS* and involving prisoners in the Stavropol colony in the activities of a terrorist organization. |
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