Islamic blogger Xafizz.01 has become the eighth defendant in the case of planning a terrorist attack in central Moscow.
He was sentenced by the court to 12 years in prison for planning to commit a terrorist attack near the FSB building on Lubyanka.
He will spend the first three years in prison, and the remaining nine years in a penal colony, TASS writes.
Sharipov is accused of participating in a terrorist organization and financing terrorism.
The terrorists planned to carry out a shooting on May 1, 2022, and demand the withdrawal of Russian troops from Syria.
Islamic blogger Xafizz.01, real name Nurmukhamad Sharipov, has studied and adopted the ideology of a terrorist organization banned in Russia
Sharipov became the eighth defendant in the case to receive a prison sentence.
