ST. PETERSBURG. Nov 21 (Interfax) - The Moscow District Military Court sentenced a member of the St. Petersburg cell of the Hizb ut-Tahrir terrorist organization outlawed in Russia to 12 years in a penal colony at a visiting session in St. Petersburg, an Interfax correspondent reported.
"Isa Ragimov is found guilty of perpetrating a crime on the basis of Part 1 Article 205.5 of the Russian Criminal Code and is sentenced to 12 years in a high-security penal colony with limitation of freedom for a year," the judge of the Moscow District Military Court's panel pronounced the sentence.
At the hearings, the prosecutor sought 13 years and three months with the limitation of freedom for a year for Ragimov.
As earlier reported, 15 people were detained at different times in St. Petersburg as part of a criminal cases related to their involvement in Hizb ut-Tahrir, which outlawed in Russia. Seven of them have already been convicted.
The Supreme Court ruled to recognize Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami as a terrorist organization outlawed in the country on February 14, 2003.