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Tajik citizen sentenced to nine years for IS recruitment

Xinhua, April 6, 2017 Adjust font size:

Batiyor Soliyev, a 24-year-old resident of northern Tajikistan, was sentenced to nine years in prison for recruiting young people for the Islamic State in Russia.

According to a Tajikistan Radio, Ozodi, Soliyev was found guilty of organizing an extremist community in Russia, and recruiting and sending young people to participate in military operations in Syria and Iraq. After migrating from the Tajik city of Isfara to Russia for two-and-a-half years to work as a laborer, he was arrested and sent back to Tajikistan.

Soliyev was located following testimony from his classmate Nusratullo Kodirov, who was detained along with his wife and two young children on the way to Syria and brought to Tajikistan from Turkey in late 2016. In February, the city court of Isfara sentenced Kodirov to 14 years in prison for attempting to join the ranks of IS.

Soliyev's relatives said they had no idea what he was doing in Russia and had no response to the court's verdict. Endi