TASHKENT. Feb 27 (Interfax) - Eleven followers of the Jihadism extremist movement have been sentenced in Uzbekistan.
"The defendants were charged with plotting to overthrow the constitutional system, incitement to religious and ethnic discord, distribution of extremist materials and establishment and participation in an extremist and fundamentalist religious organization," a republican police representative told Interfax on Wednesday.
"Eleven members of the Jihadism religious extremist movement were sentenced from 5-12 years in prison," he said.
The group had been operating in the Namangan region of Uzbekistan (the Fergana Valley).
Followers of the extremist organization emerged in the republic for the first time in the early 1990s.