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[KavkazUzel] Citizens of Azerbaijan accused of involvement in illegal armed groups in Syria have been arrested.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on June 14, the Baku court passed a sentence on members of the radical group "Army of Allah" in Syria,
| ...probably Jundullah, founded in Idlib by Jabal al-Turkman in 2015, reduced to an estimated 40 members by 2021 when Al Nusra invited them to either join or be dissolved... |
Vasif Einiev and Shikhzade Mammadov. Both were sentenced to seven years in prison, despite repentance.
According to the prosecution, Einiev and Mammadov went to the Syrian city of Idlib, where they joined the group, in which until February 2022 they participated in battles and carried out guard duty. They were arrested in January at the airport on their return to Baku from Syria.
According to the State Security Service of Azerbaijan, 13 arrested citizens participated in the fighting as part of an illegal armed group and were trained in a special camp in the city of Idlib. Initially, they were put on the wanted list. These are Shamil Abdullayev, Murad Agametov, Murad Guliyev, Farhad Rustamov, Sultan Sultanov, Nejmaddin Huseynov, Hikmet Makhmudov, Mais Aliyev, Ismail Ismailov, Shahriyar Babayev, Gadzhi Muradov, Alovsar Bakhyshov, Intigam Asadov. They were delivered to Azerbaijan within the framework of the procedure of mutual legal assistance on the international wanted list, the State Security Service said, which was translated by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
The detainees are charged under Article 283-1.3 of the Criminal Code of Azerbaijan (creation of stable groups for the purpose of participating in armed conflicts outside the borders of the Republic of Azerbaijan, participation in these groups, exercises or armed conflicts). Under this article, the defendants face a prison sentence of nine to 12 years.
The State Security Service distributed a six-minute video with testimonies and repentances of the arrested. One of them, Farhad Rustamov, reports that he went to Syria through Turkey with his son, telling his wife that he was taking his son to study at the university. During the fighting, Rustamov's son died. Murad Agametov said that he was invited to Syria by a certain Abu-Khalil, whom he met on Telegram.
"I went first to Turkey. Then I moved to Syria, where Abu Khalil met me at the border. After training in the camp, we began to participate in hostilities," says Agametov.
Representatives and lawyers of those arrested were unavailable for comment.
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