Dagestan Resident Receives Suspended Sentence on Extremism Charge

A resident of Dagestan’s Babayurtovsky District has been sentenced to a one-year suspended prison term for publicly calling for extremist activity. The republic’s joint court press service announced the ruling.

According to the court, the man created a Telegram channel and posted videos there that were subsequently classified as extremist. He used a mobile phone to publish the material.

The court determined that the defendant’s actions were intended to incite hostility toward people based on their religious affiliation. The defendant fully admitted his guilt during the hearing.

He was sentenced to one year of imprisonment, suspended, with a one-year probationary period. Additionally, for a period of two years, he is prohibited from administering websites, forums, groups, or chats, and from publishing any content online.

The press service did not disclose the convicted man's name, nor did it specify the content of the videos he published. According to the Babayurtovsky District Court’s case records, the most recent verdict under this article was handed down on September 7; the defendant's details in the case file have been redacted.

The practice of withholding details in extremism cases has long existed in Russian courts. Back in 2018, *Novaya Gazeta* analyzed 270 rulings in such cases and found that approximately 100 of them had significant information redacted—including the content of the publications, audio, and video materials at the heart of the proceedings. Consequently, it was often impossible to determine from the published rulings exactly what the court had deemed extremist.
 

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