Four Dagestani citizens were sentenced to lengthy prison terms in the prison jamaat case.

The Southern District Military Court sentenced four residents of Dagestan to prison terms ranging from 8 to 23 years. According to the court, while serving their sentences in a penal colony, they previously joined a terrorist organization and spread its ideology.

According to the court and investigators, between 2008 and 2011, an unknown individual created a terrorist organization called "Jamaat" on the premises of a correctional facility in Dagestan. The defendants voluntarily joined this group and subsequently participated in its activities alongside other inmates.

Specifically, they disseminated extremist and terrorist ideology within the prison colony and searched for and concealed prohibited materials, including literature and videos calling for terrorism, Interfax reported today, citing the court's press service.

Furthermore, they conducted classes for other inmates on radical Islamist ideology and terrorist methods, promoted and justified terrorism, and encouraged members of the group to continue spreading terrorist ideology and recruiting new members after their release.

In April 2018, one of the inmates, Magomed Khanilaev, assumed leadership of this group, becoming its director. He was convicted of organizing a terrorist organization 1 and participating in the activities of a terrorist organization 2 and sentenced to 23 years in a maximum security prison colony.

Three members of the organization—Ragim Korkmasov, Magomed Magomedov, and Albert Yusufov—were found guilty of participating in the activities of a terrorist organization and received sentences ranging from 8 to 10 years in a maximum security prison.

Magomed Khanilaev was born on July 5, 1993, according to his entry in the Rosfinmonitoring register of terrorists and extremists. According to a bot tracking updates to this list, Khanilaev's information, marked as a terrorist, was added long before his sentencing, on October 12, 2021. Korkmasov, born in 1990, was added to this list in February 2021, and Magomedov, 36, was added to the list in May of the same year. All are natives of Dagestan.

"Caucasian Knot" also reported that the Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced five prisoners to lengthy prison terms in a penal colony in Kabardino-Balkaria, recognizing them as members of a "prison jamaat."