(Radio Free Europe) A court in Vienna has sentenced a 32-year-old man from Russia’s North Caucasus region of Chechnya to 10 years in prison for fighting along with militants of the now-defunct group Caucasus Emirate (Imarat Kavkaz) against Russian federal troops.
The Vienna Criminal Court on July 23 found the man, identified as Adam S., guilty of being a member of a terrorist group between 2008 and 2013 and taking part in preparing an attack against Russian troops.
Adam S. testified that he had joined forces fighting against Russia after he witnessed “atrocities” committed by Russian federal troops in Chechnya, whom the man called “the occupiers.”
While fighting in 2013, the man lost fingers on his left hand and his eyesight was severely damaged. He has been residing in Austria since 2017.
