Tbilisi City Court finds suspects guilty in attempt of join Islamic State in Syria
One of the five offenders has been charged with membership in terrorist organisation and assisting the other members of the group in the effort, leading to a sentence of 12 years behind the bars.The other four have been charged with the former crime, and are set to face 10 years in prison. Photo: Tbilisi City Court/Facebook.
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The Tbilisi City Court has found five Georgian citizens guilty of an attempt to join the Islamic State terrorist organisation in Syria and support of its activities, the Court announced on Tuesday.
The ruling said the five individuals had attempted to travel to the Middle East to join the ranks of IS, with the inquiry based on evidence from the Prosecutor General’s Office.
Their effort was prevented “in a timely manner” by the Prosecutor’s Office and the state Counter-Terrorism Centre, the former body said.
One of the five offenders has been charged with membership in terrorist organisation and assisting the other members of the group in the effort, leading to a sentence of 12 years behind the bars.
The other four have been charged with the former crime, and are set to face 10 years in prison.
Six terrorism suspects, who were detained before, during or after the 2017 large-scale counter terrorism raids in Tbilisi and Pankisi, have been found guilty by Tbilisi City Court today.
Five individuals have been arrested in Georgia’s Muslim-populated Pankisi gorge, in the eastern Kakheti region of Georgia, on terrorism charges earlier today, the Georgian State Security Service has confirmed.
The Georgian State Security Service (SSS) says that five individuals who were arrested in Georgia’s Muslim-populated Pankisi gorge earlier today were members of terrorist organisation Islamic State (IS) and had plans to leave for Syria.