A supporter of ISIS has been convicted in Tajikistan

An elderly man has been sentenced to a long prison term for promoting the ideas of ISIS.

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The court of the Khatlon region sentenced a sixty-year-old resident of the Kubodiyon district to 12 years in prison for attracting citizens to the ranks of ISIS.

According to the press center of the General Prosecutor’s Office of Tajikistan, Karimov Safar Shomuratovich, born in 1962 and a resident of the Kubodiyon district of the Khatlon region, convinced two brothers in Russia to join ISIS. After being detained in Russia at the request of Tajikistan in 2017, he continued to urge another 4 Russian citizens to join ISIS and go to Iraq and Syria while in a pre-trial detention center in the Samara region.

According to the General Prosecutor’s Office, among the citizens who joined ISIS at Karimov’s urging were brothers Khasanov G.A. and Khasanov A.A..

A criminal case was initiated against Karimov S.Sh. under Article 401, Note 1 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (illegal involvement and participation in armed formations, armed conflicts, or military actions on the territory of other states), and on February 3, 2017, he was placed on the international wanted list.

Safar Karimov was convicted in Russia and after serving his sentence was extradited to Tajikistan. On November 4, 2022, the Khatlon Regional Court found Karimov “guilty under Article 401, Note 1 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan and sentenced him to 12 years in a strict regime colony.”