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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Maykop resident was convicted of recruiting for a terrorist organization.

2025-11-18

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] The Southern District Military Court sentenced 23-year-old Maykop resident Shamil Aliyev to 14 years in prison for recruiting a citizen to an international terrorist organization.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," on August 31, security forces announced the arrest in Adygea of a suspected terrorist militant suspected of recruiting Maykop residents to the Islamic State. The Maykop City Court subsequently remanded the suspect in custody.

According to the court, the man, a member of an international terrorist organization banned in Russia, conducted conversations with a foreign citizen on its behalf. During these conversations, he rationalized and justified the organization's activities, convinced his interlocutor of the correctness of its practices, and persuaded him to participate in aiding and abetting militants, TASS reported today.

A criminal case was opened under Part 1.1 of Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (assistance to terrorist activity) and Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public calls to commit terrorist activity, public justification of terrorism or propaganda of terrorism).

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Aliyev to 14 years in prison, with the first three years to be served in a penal colony and the remaining 11 years to be served in a maximum-security penal colony, the agency reports.

According to the case file on the court's website, Shamil Aliyev's case has been pending since February 2025. His sentence was handed down in late May, and Aliyev's lawyer attempted to appeal it. Aliyev is a native of the village of Urkhuchi in the Akushinsky District of Dagestan. His details were added to the Rosfinmonitoring Agency's list of terrorists and extremists in September 2024, according to a message from a bot tracking updates to the list.

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