Varvara Karaulova was freed from prison in Vologda, a city around 450 kilometres northeast of Moscow, the RIA Novosti news agency reported. She was released a year and 10 months early.
A military court sentenced Karaulova to four and a half years in prison in 2016 for trying to enter Syria after falling in love with an Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
jihadist. She was detained a year earlier after she tried to cross into Syria from
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund....
while still a philosophy undergraduate at the renowned Moscow State University.
This month a court ruled she posed no threat to society and should be released earlier.
Karaulova's case shocked Russia in 2016, as the then 21-year-old wept in court and said her attempt to cross in Syria was "all a mistake". It was also widely covered by state media.
Karaulova was charged with preparing to participate in a terrorist organization, but pleaded not guilty
"Wudn't me."
, saying she was motivated by love for a Russian jihadist fighting in Syria.
She met him online while still a teenager and they wrote to each other for three years without meeting. In 2014, he went to Syria and told her he was fighting for IS. Karaulova converted to Islam and began warning a hijab. She disappeared without warning in May 2015, prompting a frantic search by her parents. They found that she had flown to Turkey and travelled to the border with other women hoping to join men fighting for IS.
Thousands of people from the former USSR have travelled to Syria to fight with Islamists, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances..., since Moscow intervened on the side of the Damascus regime in 2015.
Karaulova's case was particularly unusual in Russia since her family is not Moslem.
| We’ve seen plenty of that kind of nonsense in Western Europe and England — the groomers do not focus only on Muslim girls. |
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