DUSHANBE, April 23, 2015, Asia-Plus – Russian media outlets report Tajik national has been detained in northwest Russia on suspicion of propagating Islamic extremism.
According to TASS, security officials in the Arkhangelsk region said on April 21 that a 20-year-old Tajik man, whose name was not disclosed, was arrested and charged with “public calls to conduct terrorist activities and terrorism justification.”
Investigators say the man reportedly used the Internet to call on Muslims in Russia to join Islamic militants across Middle East and former Soviet Union, to become members of Islamic State, the Islamic Party of Turkestan, and other groups banned in Russia and Central Asia.
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) press service says criminal proceedings against him have been instituted under the article ‘public calls for terrorist activities and public justification of terrorism’ of Russia’s Criminal Code.
It has reportedly been established that the man who lives in Arkhangelsk adheres to the ideas of radical Islam. He posted on the web numerous materials aimed at inciting violent actions with regard to non-Muslims and calling for carrying out terrorist attacks in the Middle East and the former Soviet Union and joining the international terrorist groups – Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, al-Farouq Brigade and the Turkistan Islamic Party.
FSB press service says materials with extremist content were found at the man’s residence. An investigation is under way.
