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Two women from the southern Kyrgyz Republic were sentenced to prison in September 2016 for attempting to recruit a woman into Daesh.
The women, 55 and 30 years old, used the internet in an attempt to get the other woman to join the terror group in Syria, according to the findings of a regional court in Jalalabad. One was given a six-year prison sentence, while the other received a seven-year sentence.
They were accused under criminal mercenary codes of “forgery, manufacture, sale or use, purchase, storage, distribution, transportation and shipment of extremist materials, as well as the intentional use of symbols or attributes of extremist organizations.”
A Kyrgyz Supreme Court press service said the “court proved that the convicted, accompanied by a citizen of the Republic, using fake documents, tried go to Syria.” It also said one had planned to meet her brother, a member of Daesh, in Syria.
Dozens of people have been detained or jailed in the former Soviet republics for allegedly recruiting fighters for extremist groups in Syria and Iraq.
Sources: 24.kgnews, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty