STAVROPOL. Nov 5 (Interfax) - Law enforcement services in the Stavropol territory have carried out an operation, tracking down a "women's madrasah," where extremism was taught, the territorial security department has reported.
The madrasah was accommodated in a private house in the northwestern part of the Stavropol territory, and it was visited by 30-40 women of various ethnicity, most of them students of Stavropol universities. Their teacher "would manipulate the students psychologically after learning about their character, habits, way of life and friends."
The students were sworn to secrecy and they were not allowed to speak about their madrasah activities with the family. They would subsequently be allowed to read extremist literature.
"The information available suggests that some of the women who had undergone training at the madrasah went radical, or disappeared, or moved to Dagestan, while others travelled to the Middle East with their husbands to fight for the Muslims' freedom, where they vanished for good," the report said.
A raid conducted by the police and security services on October 30 and 31 led to the discovery of ten women living in the madrasah. Islamic religious literature listed as extremist, as well as pornography videos were discovered in the organizer's home.
"The possible identity of the women students and the women on the porno videos is being established. An inquiry has been started," the report says.