Another Hizb terrorist gets 11 years
The court sentenced Yashar Shikhametov for participation in the terrorist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir, banned in the Russian Federation.
Shikhametov was detained in February last year in Sevastopol, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“In the interests of this terrorist organization, he carried out hidden propaganda work among the population, and also studied and stored ideological and propaganda materials at his place of residence,” says the statement of the Southern District Military Court, which considered the case.
Shikhametov was sentenced to 11 years of imprisonment in a maximum security penal colony with the first four years to be served in prison.
The day before, during the hearing of the case in court, the 52-year-old defendant became ill - his blood pressure rose. The ambulance doctors gave him an injection and informed the court that the defendant’s condition allowed him to continue the hearing, which Shikhametov’s support group regarded as “pressure from law enforcement on medical workers.” For his part, the judge refused to satisfy the defense's request to declare a break.
One of the activists, Valery Grigor, who positions himself as a Russian Muslim, is not the first time present at meetings in Rostov on the case of the Crimean cell of the banned organization Hizb ut-Tahrir.
“I came to support my brother, to express my civic position and disagreement with the repressions carried out by the FSB in Crimea since 2015 against Muslims, over the Crimean Tatars,” the Crimean Solidarity group, which reports from court hearings, quotes him.
Since January 2015, supporters of Hizb ut-Tahrir began to be detained in Crimea. They position themselves as a social movement that does not have extremist overtones. But Hizb ut-Tahrir declared its goal to be the creation of a universal world Islamic state (caliphate), living according to Sharia law. The pro-Islamic political party Hizb ut-Tahrir has been banned in Russia since 2003.
In Ukraine, the activities of this organization were not stopped, therefore, after Crimea became part of the Russian Federation, supporters of Hizb ut-Tahrir found themselves outside the law.
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. Their leader received 17 years in prison.
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