Convicted for the attack on Nalchik in 2005, his sentence was extended for justifying terrorism.
In 2020, Islam Tukhuzhev, convicted of the 2005 Nalchik attack, received a new sentence for justifying terrorism. On March 24, 2020, the Federal Security Service of Russia for the Ivanovo Region reported that a prisoner in one of the colonies in the region was sentenced to three years and two months in a strict regime colony under Part 1 of Art. 205.2 CC.