A resident of Adygea was sentenced to seven years in prison on charges of involvement in At-Takfir wal-Hijra

The Teuchezhsky District Court of Adygeya sentenced Rafael Rakhmetov, a resident of the republic, to seven years and one month in prison, finding him guilty of organizing and financing the At-Takfir Val-Hijra cell. about it . writes TASS

Rakhmetov is already serving a sentence on charges of drug trafficking in one of the colonies in the region. The new charge of inciting to the activities of an extremist organization and participation in it (part 1.1 and part 2 of article 282.2 of the Criminal Code), as well as providing or collecting funds for an extremist organization (part 1 of article 282.3 of the Criminal Code) involves serving a sentence in a colony strict regime.

• At-Takfir wal-Hijra is an Islamist organization created in the 1970s in Egypt and conducting its activities against the governments of Islamic countries. In 2010, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recognized the organization as extremist and banned its activities in the country. Vitaly Ponomarev, a member of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" , points out that experts doubt the existence of this organization, since information about it is based "on certain sources of special services, the reliability of which is unclear."