Citizen of Tajikistan sentenced to 7 years of imprisonment for recruitment of Stavropol woman into IS

In Rostov-on-Don, the North-Caucasian District Military Court has sentenced a citizen of Tajikistan, who tried to recruit a female resident of the Stavropol Territory for joining the "Islamic State" (IS) in Syria. According to investigators, the man contacted the young woman through social networks.

The criminal case came to the Court on August 25. The verdict was pronounced on October 1, the website of the North-Caucasian District Military Court reports.

According to investigators, Khurshedjon Mikhtodjov offered the young woman from the Stavropol Territory to marry him in accordance with Muslim traditions and then go through Turkey to Syria and join the IS, the "Interfax-South" reports with reference to the press service of the North-Caucasian District Military Court.

In September 2014, the defendant arrived in the Stavropol Territory from Moscow and was detained. Law enforcers found heroin in his belongings.

Khurshedjon Mikhtodjov was found guilty of promoting terrorist activities and illegal possession and transportation of narcotic drugs without intent to sell in a large scale. The Court sentenced him to seven years of imprisonment in a high-security penal colony.

Earlier, on September 1, six young people from the Shelkovskaya District of Chechnya were detained at the Russian border on suspicion of trying to go to Syria to take part in the combat actions in the ranks of the IS.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.