Its members actively promoted extremist ideology and recruited new supporters to the group, according to the Federal Security Service.
MOSCOW, October 23.
/TASS/. The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has eliminated two extremist
cells in Karachay-Cherkessia and Dagestan, the FSB Public Relations Center
informed TASS on Friday.
"The Federal
Security Service in Malokarachayevsky District of the Karachay-Cherkess
Republic and in the cities of Makhachkala, Kaspiysk and Izberbash in the
Republic of Dagestan foiled the activities of two cells of the At Takfir
wal-Hijra international extremist religious organization (outlawed in Russia)
with a total number of more than 20 people," it said.
According to the FSB,
its members actively promoted extremist ideology and recruited new supporters
to the group. "They urged believers to reject secular laws and civil
society institutions. They also advocated the creation of a theocratic Islamic
state - a caliphate - in the North Caucasus," it noted.
During the searches,
FSB officers seized, in particular, three grenades, three Makarov pistols, 190
copies of pseudo-religious literature and five handwritten texts of lectures by
extremist preachers.
The FSB directorates
in Karachay-Cherkessia and Dagestan have initiated criminal cases to identify
the organization’s members and bring them to justice.
Source: ITAR-TASS
23-10-2020
