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| Resident of Kabardino-Balkaria accused of justifying terrorism |
| 2023-10-11 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] A resident of the Urvansky district, when he was a minor, posted audio recordings on social networks with calls for terrorism and justification for such actions, the investigation suggested, announcing that the case had been transferred to court. A criminal investigation has been completed against a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria on charges of publicly justifying terrorism using the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), the criminal case with an approved indictment has been transferred to court, the Russian Investigative Committee for Kabardino-Balkaria announced today. According to investigators, the accused, born in 2002, having radical religious beliefs, at the beginning of 2019, posted audio recordings on his account on one of the social networks that used “turnovers inducing and calling for terrorist actions, as well as justifying terrorist activities,” - says a message on the department’s Telegram channel. The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that a court in Rostov-on-Don found a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, Azamat Kalov, guilty of preparing a terrorist attack in Cherkessk, taking an oath to the leader of a terrorist organization and justifying terrorism. In August 2022, Kalov was sentenced to 16 years in a maximum security colony and a fine of 250,000 rubles. Related: Kabardino-Balkaria: 2023-10-01 Authorities have acknowledged the death of more than 2,600 fighters from southern Russia in Ukraine Kabardino-Balkaria: 2023-09-24 Kadyrov demanded to rewrite the chapter on the deportation of peoples in the school textbook Kabardino-Balkaria: 2023-09-20 Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: September 19th, 2023 |
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