KEMEROVO. Aug 14 (Interfax) - A female resident of Novokuznetsk in the Kemerovo region has been sentenced to eight years and ten months in a general-security penitentiary for recruiting young women into a terrorist organization, the Federal Security Service (FSB)'s branch for the Kemerovo region said on Tuesday.
The woman was charged with involvement in the activities of a terrorist organization, recruitment to commit terrorist crimes, and public calls for extremist activities on the Internet. The court found her guilty.
The FSB said it learned that she had converted to Islam and met a man living in Syria in 2013. After marrying him, she traveled to Turkey, then illegally crossed into Syria, where she lived with her husband for some time in Aleppo and other cities controlled by ISIL (a terrorist organization banned in Russia). While in Syria, the woman used social networks to encourage young women to travel to Syria and join a terrorist cell.
Following her husband's death in 2017, the woman returned to Turkey, where she appealed to the Russian consulate. FSB officials then escorted her to Kemerovo from Moscow.