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A group of 31 Azerbaijani citizens charged with a link to an international terror network and other grave crimes were handed down jail terms on Thursday.
The Grave Crimes Court sentenced the defendants, who had set up a radical religious group, to three to fifteen years imprisonment.
According to the indictment, the defendants had set up an illegal armed group and planned to commit acts defying Azerbaijan’s statehood, including staging an explosion on the Baku-Novorossiysk northern route oil pipeline that stretches from the Azerbaijani capital to neighboring Russia. Large quantities of arms and ammunition were impounded from the outlaws during their seizure.
The ring leader, Azer Misirkhanov, nicknamed Abdullah, had been involved in illegal warfare in various conflict zones in the past. Misirkhanov was killed a while ago during an operation carried out by the US military in Afghanistan.*