SCNS detains 15 Islamic State adherents engaged in recruiting

Adherents of the international terrorist organization Islamic State were detained in Bishkek and Chui region. The press center of the State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan (SCNS) reported.

«The activities of the illegal radical group were suppressed, whose members actively promoted the ideology of the Islamic State international terrorist organization and were recruiting young people, distributing photographic and video materials of a terrorist nature. A total of 15 people were detained, a large amount of religious literature was found in their homes. An examination was ordered,» the statement says.

The state committee added that one of the detainees was recruited through a social network by an IS member from Afghanistan and followed his instructions to recruit new adherents.

According to preliminary data, the distributed photo and video materials contain signs of a public call for terrorist activities, incitement to national, racial, ethnic, religious or interregional hostility and the overthrow of the constitutional order.

Training videos on the use of firearms, bladed weapons and making of improvised explosive devices were also distributed.

Four detainees were placed in a pre-trial detention center. The investigation continues.