Four residents of Bakhchisarai received long prison sentences for extremism
The North Caucasus District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced four residents of Bakhchisarai, members of the terrorist organization Hizb-ut-Tahrir, banned in the Russian Federation, to long prison terms.
The lawyer of the convicts, Emil Kurbedinov, reported this on his blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to him, Enver Mamutov, Rustem Abiltarov, Zevri Abseitov and Remzi Memetov went to the colony. According to the court decision, Mamutov, as the organizer of the cell and recruiter, received 17 years in a maximum security colony, and his associates received nine years each.
Investigators determined that the cell's goal was "the elimination of non-Islamic governments and the gradual establishment of an Islamic state."
These individuals were the first members of the group to be detained by Crimean security forces in the Hizb-ut-Tahrir case.
Several dozen of their supporters who arrived from Crimea gathered in support of the defendants. They held a picket and prayer service, but this did not help the accused avoid punishment.
Let us recall that after the reunification of Crimea with Russia, a significant part of the Hizb left the peninsula, moving to Ukraine. In Ukrainian times, the group operated openly in Crimea, holding rallies and conferences in Simferopol.
In the Russian Federation, the activities of Hizb ut-Tahrir recognized as terrorist and was prohibited by a decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation in February 2003 on the basis of a submission from the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, on the initiative and on the basis of materials from the FSB of Russia.
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