Hizb arrested in Crimea received 17 years in prison
A court in Rostov-on-Don has sentenced another member of the Crimean cell of the terrorist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir, banned in Russia. He received 17 years in a maximum security penal colony, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The Ukrainian organization “Crimea SOS” claims that the name of the convicted person is Azamat Eyupov. Back in Soviet times in the late 1980s, he participated in protests in Moscow on Red Square demanding that the descendants of the population expelled from Crimea during the Great Patriotic War be allowed to return to the peninsula, reports the Ukrainian organization Crimean Solidarity.
In February last year, FSB officers detained five members and organizers of the cell in the Republic of Crimea and another in Sevastopol. Two supporters of the Islamic Liberation Party have already been sentenced to 13 years in prison for participation in the activities of a terrorist organization and attempted violent seizure of power. Now their leader is in the dock.
“It was established that in 2017 the defendant, together with two other men, organized the activities of a structural unit (cell) of the banned terrorist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir on the territory of the Republic of Crimea,” the press service of the Southern District Military Court reported. “The defendant carried out propaganda work among the population, spreading the ideas of Hizb ut-Tahrir, persuading local residents to participate in this terrorist organization.”
The leader of the cell also determined goals and objectives, held secret meetings of its members to study the ideology of the terrorist organization aimed at changing the political system and government system of countries, including the Russian Federation. The court sentenced the man to 17 years in a maximum security correctional colony with the first 3 years to be served in prison.
If you find an error, please select a piece of text and press Ctrl + Enter.
Thank you!
Now the editors are aware.