The oversight agency demanded that the Supreme Court lift the ban on Taliban activities in Russia.
The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office has asked the Supreme Court to suspend the ban on the activities of the Taliban movement (recognized as terrorist and banned in Russia). This is reported by the agency “Interfax” with reference to the Supreme Court. Consideration of the case will be held in closed mode on April 17.
“The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation received and accepted in the proceedings an administrative claim of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation to suspend the ban on the activities of the Taliban movement, included in the unified federal list of organizations, including foreign and international organizations, recognized as terrorist in accordance with the laws of the Russian Federation,” – reported in the Supreme Court (quoted by “Interfax”).
“Taliban”. “Taliban”. In court, a representative of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation then explained that on the territory of Russia in recent years “organizations established for the purpose of carrying out terrorist activities or recognizing the possibility of using terror as a form of political struggle are increasingly active.” According to the representative of the Prosecutor General’s Office, the centers of these organizations are located outside the Russian Federation, and the emissaries staying in the country “are deeply clandestine and in an illegal situation.”
The materials provided to the court stated that the Taliban (banned in the Russian Federation), recognized as a terrorist movement, was formed in Afghanistan in 1994 as an extremist Islamic movement. It maintained links with illegal armed groups operating in the territory of the Chechen Republic. As evidence of its terrorist activities was cited the 1995 seizure in Kandahar, Afghanistan, of an Il-76 aircraft of the Tatarstan-based Aerostan airline, the crew of which had been held hostage for a long time.
In addition, according to the Prosecutor General’s Office, the organization, with the support of terrorist Osama bin Laden, sought opportunities for Islamic movements to seize power in Central Asian states, including Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.