MOSCOW, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- A man in Russia was convicted of "public justification of terrorism" through postings on a social networking website, Moscow prosecutors said Wednesday.
Murat Sarbashev of St. Petersburg posted a video on his web page of an Islamist militant, advocating violence against ethic Russians and calling for an independent Islamist state in Russia's North Caucasus region, the Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported.
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After receiving negative feedback, Sarbashev responded with an online "public justification of terrorism (and) a statement deeming the ideology and practice of terrorism right and worthy of support and imitation," prosecutors said.
Sarbashev was sentenced to two years in prison.
