OSH. June 22 (Interfax) - A resident of southern Kyrgyzstan has been sentenced to eight years in a penitentiary for recruiting compatriots to the ISIL terrorist organization (banned in Russia), a spokesman for the Osh regional prosecution service told Interfax on Thursday.
"The Osh Regional Court has finalized an inquiry into the suspected recruitment of Kyrgyz citizens to the banned terrorist organization, ISIL, and has sentenced the defendant to eight years in custody," the spokesman said.
Back in 2013, the convict was calling for a jihad against the Kyrgyz authorities and law enforcement officers and opposing principles of the secular state.
"In addition, he was sending Kyrgyz citizens to Syria on the orders from the terrorist organization. He was convicted under the Kyrgyz Criminal Code on the counts of incitement to ethnic, racial, religious or inter-regional hate and mercenarism and would serve his time in a maximum-security penitentiary," the spokesman said.
The Aravan District Court of the Osh region earlier passed a three-year suspended sentence on the recruiter. The prosecutors challenged the judgment, he said.