Kokand city criminal court sentenced 11 people found guilty of supporting the international terrorist organization "Tauheed va Jihad Katibasi" to 6 to 12 years of imprisonment. the press service of the State Security Service reported.
Reportedly, the convicts are residents of Kokand and the Uzbekistan district of the Fergana province, aged 24 to 40. One of them was a manager of a pharmaceutical company, another was a chief mechanic at a gas filling station, others were engaged in private entrepreneurship, worked in the catering industry, handicrafts, taxis and others.
The group was engaged in illegal activities was identified in an operational search. Its members held meetings in a teahouse in Kokand in 2021-2023, disguising them as Saturday pilaf. They included lectures containing ideas of jihad, calls for building an Islamic state, religious extremism, Abdulloh Zufar, Sodiq Samarkandi, Yahyo Turkistoni and others. The participants discussed the illegal overthrow of the state system and the construction of a caliphate, and some of them - a trip to Syria, the report says.
According to the case, two members of the group in July and August 2023 sent $ 3,000 to a man named Jasur, a native of Kokand, who is now involved in the activities of the said organization in Syria.
The group members invited other individuals to their meetings in order to expand their ranks.
They exchanged information about the time and place of meetings in the Telegram group. In addition, every half month and month they reported on their activities to the leader, the report says.
The Court found 11 people guilty under Financing terrorism, Encroachment on the constitutional order of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Making, storage, distribution or demonstration of materials containing a threat to public safety and public order and Creation, leadership, participation in religious extremist, separatist, fundamentalist or other prohibited organizations charges of the Criminal Code.
The report by the SSS press service includes confessions from some of the group's members.
