Sharipov Nurmuhamad Giesidinovich (Xafizz.01)

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2024: Sentence - 12 years in prison for attempted terrorist attack on Lubyanka

On October 23, 2024, the Second Western District Military Court sentenced blogger Nurmukhamad Sharipov, known as Xafizz.01, to 12 years in prison for preparing a terrorist attack near the FSB building on Lubyanka. According to the verdict, the convict will spend the first three years in prison, the rest in a maximum security colony.

According to RBC, Sharipov fully pleaded guilty to financing and participating in the Islamic State terrorist organization (banned in Russia). The guilty verdict was passed under articles on participation in a terrorist organization and financing of terrorism.

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According to the case file, in June 2021, the accused, while at the Dubrovka shopping center in Moscow, joined the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham terrorist organization (banned in Russia) and began to spread its ideas among followers of radical Islam.

Sharipov's detention took place in the spring of 2023 at Sheremetyevo airport. On social media, he positioned himself as an Islamic scholar and spread Wahhabi views.

Sharipov became the eighth convict in the case of preparing a terrorist attack. According to the investigation, the group of terrorists planned on May 1, 2022 to open fire on visitors to the FSB building and passers-by on Lubyanka, after which to put forward demands for the withdrawal of Russian troops from Syria.

The court found that in the summer of 2021, the defendant studied and accepted the ideology of a banned terrorist organization, after which he began to show intolerance to representatives of other faiths and unbelievers.

When sentencing, the court took into account the time spent by the defendants in the pre-trial detention center. Earlier, Merob Khaitov was convicted in the same case, who, according to investigators, took the oath of allegiance to a terrorist organization banned in Russia and planned to shoot the administrative buildings of local self-government.^[1]

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