In the Leningrad region, a supporter of the Tablighi Jamaat movement was sentenced to imprisonment

On September 3, the Kingisepp City Court of the Leningrad Region sentenced citizen of the Kyrgyz Republic Ilyasbek Toktonazarov, a supporter of the Tablighi Jamaat movement, to two years in prison. LenTV24 published this on December 7 with reference to the FSB press service, attention to the case from the SOVA Information and Analytical Center.

Judge Nikolai Osipov reported that Toktonazarov was found guilty under the article on participation in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). Leningrad Regional Court on November 25, the verdict remained unchanged.

admitted left According to SOVA, Toktonazarov was added to the list of persons involved, according to Russian officials, in extremism or terrorism in October 2019, and the case against him was sent to court in August 2020.

The prosecutor's office said that the accused "took an active part in and held religious events ("dagvat" and "taalim") in a construction camp in the Kingisepp district."

pointed out - Supporters of Tablighi Jamaat regularly face persecution from the Russian authorities. Thus, in February 2020, six citizens of Kyrgyzstan were arrested in Moscow on suspicion of involvement in this organization. And in June, security forces in Moscow conducted searches of several Tablighi Jamaat supporters. Searches of supporters of the organization on August 10 and in Mordovia: security forces seized more than a thousand “extremist” and religious books, detained several people and opened criminal cases against them. In early September, six supporters of the motion were sentenced to imprisonment for a term of one to three years. sent to custody detained passed sentenced - International religious organization "Tablighi Jamaat" in Russia extremist in 2009. According to the SOVA Information and Analytical Center, this ban is unlawful, since the association is engaged in the promotion of Islam and has not been seen in any calls for violence. acknowledged the opinion