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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Five prisoners of the Kalmyk colony were convicted in the “prison jamaat” case

2024-03-06

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] A court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced five natives of Dagestan accused in the case of a terrorist community in a Kalmyk colony to long prison terms.

According to the press service of the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don, Islam Israilov and Magomed Magomedov were sentenced to eight years in a special regime colony. Merden Merdenov - to seven years in a maximum security colony, Akhmed Shamsudinov - to nine years and six months in a maximum security colony, Arsen Misrikhanov - to seven years and three months in a maximum security colony.

All five were found guilty of participating in a terrorist community created in one of the colonies in Kalmykia, Interfax cited a press service report today.

Some more of that hundred-strong group of Caucasus Emirate jihadis who swore allegiance to ISIS while in prison who show up here when it is their turn for sentencing by the Russian courts.

According to the case materials, in 2013, a terrorist community banned in Russia was created on the territory of a correctional institution in Kalmykia. The five defendants became its active participants - they delved into its ideology, attended lectures, and also studied extremist materials.

There were no comments from representatives of the convicted persons.

According to the telegram channel “Updating the list of terrorists and extremists,” which publishes updates to the Rosfinmonitoring list, which contains the names of people involved in terrorism and extremism, the Israilovs, Magomedovs, Merdenovs, Shamsudinovs and Misrikhanovs are natives of Dagestan.

The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that on November 30, 2023, it became known that a court in Rostov-on-Don found seven residents of southern Russia guilty of participating in a terrorist cell in a Kalmyk colony and sentenced them to terms of eight to 11 years in prison .

Let us recall that, according to investigators, no later than 2013, a native of Dagestan, who was serving a sentence in Kalmyk penal colony No. 2, created a terrorist organization in the colony, and it subsequently included more than 100 prisoners. Investigators named Shakhban Gasanov,

…sometimes transliterated as Shabhan Hasanov, erstwhile emir of the Kizlyar group of Emarat Kavkaz/Imarat Kavkaz, or in English the Caucasus Emirate. Originally an Al Qaeda franchise, they subsequently swore allegiance to ISIS under the name Caucasus Province (Vilayat Kavkaz), though nobody bothers to remember the name change. Russia has been hunting down Caucasian Emirate jihadis for three decades, no doubt a factor in thousands of members and their families making hijra to the rebellion in Syria — where they’re known for their nastiness in a region where nastiness is the norm — some to Al Nusra, some to ISIS, while others were adopted by Turkey (that whole Turkic peoples thingy). Oddly enough, when the Tsarnaev brothers blew up the Boston Marathon, the rump home office denied responsibility as they were not making war on America (“Please don’t hurt us!”)...

who was killed in 2015 in Khasavyurt, as the organizer of the terrorist community. The head of correctional colony No. 2, Pavel Bataev, and his former deputy, Artur Tsamaev, were also detained on suspicion of patronizing a terrorist community for a reward.

Analysts interviewed by the Caucasian Knot previously expressed the opinion that information about a terrorist network in the Kalmyk colony is similar to a PR campaign by security forces.

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