A bill has been introduced to the State Duma that would allow the Taliban to be removed from the list of terrorist organizations

A bill has been introduced to the State Duma that would allow the Taliban to be removed from the list of terrorist organizations. This was reported on the website of the lower house of parliament.

The initiators of the document were five deputies and seven senators, including Andrei Klishas, ​​Vasily Piskarev and Andrei Lugovoy.

After the document is adopted in the Russian Federation, it will be possible to exclude organizations (or, as stated in the bill, “temporarily suspend the ban on activities”) from the list of terrorist organizations if they “stopped carrying out activities aimed at promoting, justifying and supporting terrorism.”

The court can make such a decision based on a statement from the Prosecutor General's Office. Representatives of such organizations are not required to attend the consideration of the claim.

After the Taliban is removed from the list of terrorist organizations, there will still be no grounds for reviewing the final court sentences passed in criminal cases related to them.

But if the decision is made before the sentence of journalist Nadezhda Kevorkova is approved, there will be no grounds for further prosecution of her, it follows from the text of the bill.

Earlier today, former Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said at a meeting in Kabul that Russian authorities intend to remove the Taliban from the list of terrorist organizations.

Earlier, FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov confirmed that the Russian Federation is completing its consideration of the issue of removing the Taliban from the list of terrorist organizations. According to him, the actions of the militants are “aimed at establishing order and maintaining stability” in Afghanistan.

Bortnikov added that the intelligence services note the Taliban’s readiness to fight the ISIS wing, Vilayat Khorasan, “which continues to receive resource support from the West, which uses the terrorist group’s capabilities in subversive actions under false flags on our territory.”

At the end of August, the Taliban banned women in Afghanistan from speaking in public, showing their faces outside the home, singing or reading aloud, actions deemed “vice.” The Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has already reported that it has allegedly detained thousands of people for non-compliance with Sharia law in the country.

In May, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Justice reported to Putin that the Taliban could be removed from the list of terrorist organizations. Putin later said that it is necessary to build relationships with them, because “these are the people who control the country.” In June, representatives of militants visited SPIEF.

The Taliban were designated as terrorist groups in Russia in March 2003. He was included in this list based on a decision of the UN Security Council and the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. In 2021, the Taliban took control of the entire territory of Afghanistan. Western countries have not recognized the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan.