Two Kaliningrad women convicted for making calls for terrorism on social networking sites
KALININGRAD. June 9 (Interfax) - The Moskovsky District Military Court has handed down a sentence to two residents of Kaliningrad who were convicted for making public calls for terrorism.
Officials from the Kaliningrad directorate of the Federal Security Service determined that the residents of Kaliningrad had posted videos on the Vkontakte social network in support of the Islamic State terrorist organization, which is banned in Russia, in January 2015, the press service for the Kaliningrad directorate of the Federal Security Service told Interfax.
In March 2015, the Federal Security Service directorate found another resident of the city who had also published terrorist videos on the Internet.
Investigators determined that both women considered the ideology and practice of terrorism to be correct and believed it should be supported and imitated and pursued the goal of its public justification, the Federal Security Service directorate said.
Criminal cases were opened against the women on the basis of the article of the Russian Criminal Code dealing with "public calls for terrorist activities or public justification of terrorism." The Moskovsky District Military Court sentenced them to two years in a settlement colony and gave them fines.
