The verdict for the preaching

In Rostov-on-Don, the North Caucasus District Military Court sentenced the Khasavyurt Salafi imam Magomednabi Magomedov (Sildinsky) to five years in a general regime colony. It is reported by the "Caucasian Knot".

Magomedov was found guilty under Part 1 of Article 205.2 (public calls for terrorism or its public justification) and part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (excitement of hatred or enmity). Politzek did not admit sane guilt.

At the same time, on October 21, in the debate of the parties, the prosecutor requested five years of the settlement for the defendant.

The hearing in the case continued on August 19 . Judge Anatoly Kolesnik chaired in the process. Whether he led the trial alone or at the head of the judicial board, is unknown. Information about the progress of the judicial investigation did not enter the seal

Magomedov was the Imam of the Eastern Mosque of Khasavyurt and the chairman of the city council of Imamov. According to the plot of the case, in his Khutbe (Friday preaching) the “Muslim problems” , uttered in the eastern mosque on February 5, the cleric “publicly announced the recognition of the ideology and practice of terrorism correctly in need of support and imitation.”

In fact, however, Imam in his sermon emphasized the inadmissibility of the further pressure of the authorities on the Salafites and called on believers to be united and defend their rights with peaceful means.

On March 29, the UFSB in Dagestan opened a case against Magomedov . The TSPE operatives seized Imam on April 8, when he appeared to the police in order to intercede for believers detained after Friday worship. Magomedov was taken to Makhachkala, and the next day the Soviet district court of the Dagestan capital arrested him. Subsequently, the term of detention of imam in a pre -trial detention center was extended several times.

Immediately after the arrest , Magomedov was tortured in the Makhachkala pre-trial detention center-1 . The goal was to get Imam's confession. Nevertheless, Politzek refused to testify against himself, referring to Article 51 of the Constitution. After the beatings, the arrested reported, in particular, about the pain in the kidneys.

Alexander Cherkasov, chairman of the board of the Memorial human rights center, regarded the arrest of Magomedov as "a conscious provocation aimed at destabilizing the situation in the republic." The proceedings noted that the Imam, being the leader of the moderate Salafi community of Khasavyurt, "consistently and publicly opposed violence, against the departure of young Muslims into the forest or their departure to the Middle East" and thereby "really helped to preserve the lives of people."