A Dagestani resident has been convicted of inciting extremism.

A court in Dagestan has sentenced a resident of the village of Urguly in the Tsumadinsky District to a suspended sentence after finding him guilty of inciting extremism for a Telegram post.

The charge of public incitement to extremist activity (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Russian Criminal Code) carries a sentence of up to five years in prison or forced labor.

A resident of the village of Urguly, Abdulatipov, ran his own Telegram channel in 2024 and posted a video on it. Law enforcement officials found "extremist statements, as well as propaganda of hostility and violence based on religion," the republic's FSB department reported on March 16.

Abdulatipov's case was heard by the Babayurt District Court. The man was sentenced to two years in prison with a one-year ban on online publications. The sentence has entered into force.

The security forces' statement only provided Abdulatipov's initials: S.A. The convicted man's first and middle names are also obscured in the case file and the verdict on the court's website. The verdict, handed down on February 6, indicates that Abdulatipov admitted his guilt during the investigation and requested that the case be heard under a special procedure. A special procedure, where the accused fully admits the charges, provides for a more lenient sentence than the article stipulates.

Despite the verdict under the extremism article that has entered into force, Abdulatipov's details have not been added to the Rosfinmonitoring register of terrorists and extremists as of 1:50 a.m. Moscow time.