A court in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don has sentenced the wife of Tajik ISIS propagandist Parviz Saidrakhmonov, known as “Abu Dovud” to 11 years in prison. The decision regarding Madina Bondarenko was made in early August, radio “Ozodi” reports.
According to the woman's relative, Madina was found guilty of “membership in a terrorist organization”.
A relative of Madina, who spoke to radio “Ozodi” on the rights of anonymity, said that the woman denied the charge of membership in a terrorist organization at the trial and all the time claimed that her husband took her to Turkey and from there to Syria fraudulently.
However, Parviz Saidrakhmonov, during interrogations by Russian investigators in Dushanbe, said that his wife knew from the first day that she was going to Syria, since she deliberately went to this Middle Eastern country in 2017.
According to Madina's relative, the court took into account her husband's words during sentencing. He added that the court refused to take into account the fact that the woman is the mother of minor children. The court stated that all three of Madina's children are citizens of Tajikistan, not Russia, and they were transferred to the upbringing of the state in Tajikistan.
Attempts by her family to return the children to Russia were unsuccessful.
The children of “Abu Dovud” – three of them from Madina Bondarenko and one daughter from Sitora Fozilova – according to “Ozodi”, they are in one of the boarding schools in Dushanbe.
The radio notes that Sitora Fozilova's mother has been trying for many years to take her granddaughter for upbringing, but so far the authorities are in no hurry to satisfy her request.
The Tajik authorities delivered “Abu Dovud”, his wife and their four children from Turkey to Dushanbe in 2022. A year ago, Madina was extradited from Tajikistan to Russia, where the woman has been wanted since 2017.
Parviz Saidrakhmonov was sentenced to 21 years in prison in Tajikistan in 2023.
