Organizer of women's terrorist group in Krasnoyarsk gets 2 years in penal settlement

KRASNOYARSK. Oct 24 (Interfax) - The Far Eastern District Military Court found a resident of Krasnoyarsk guilty of organizing a women's religious group promoting terrorism and sentenced her to two years in a penal settlement, the press service for the Russian Federal Security Service's Directorate for the territory said on Thursday.

"It was established during the operational search activities that L.I. Abdullayeva organized in Krasnoyarsk the work of a women's radical religious group oriented at the ideology of the international terrorist organization ISIL, which is banned in Russia," the report said.

Operatives determined facts of propaganda and justification of terrorism among the people who attended meetings of this organization, the report said.

The criminal case was opened and investigated into by the Investigative Committee's Directorate for the Krasnoyarsk Territory based on the article dealing with public calls for terrorism, public justification of terrorism or propaganda of terrorism using the mass media or electronic and telecommunications media, including the Internet.