OREANDA-NEWS  The Southern District Military Court sentenced Tamara Baragunova, a Russian woman, to ten and a half years in a penal colony for helping the Caucasus Emirate, an international terrorist organization banned in Russia. About it on Thursday, February 2, reported in the press service of the court.

As the court found, in June 2015, the convict left for Syria and joined a militant group that was part of a banned terrorist organization. She became an ordinary member of the organization, mainly helping and treating wounded militants, as well as cooking and washing clothes.

In 2016, she left Syria and lived for some time in Turkey and Egypt, hiding from law enforcement agencies. Russian security forces detained Baragunova in December 2021. Two criminal cases were initiated against her under Article 205.5 ("Participation in the activities of a terrorist organization") and 208 ("Participation in a military conflict contrary to the interests of the Russian Federation") of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

On May 31, 2022, it was reported that the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced two residents of Kabardino-Balkaria for assisting terrorists from the Caucasus Emirate organization.