A resident of Makhachkala has been sent to a pre-trial detention center on charges of justifying terrorism.

The court in Makhachkala has detained a local resident accused of publicly calling for extremist activities and justifying terrorism.

The Soviet District Court of Makhachkala considered on November 5 the petition of the preliminary investigation authority for the imposition of a preventive measure in the form of detention against a 45-year-old native of the city.

According to the investigation, the suspect posted video materials and comments in a Telegram chat from July to December 2025. In them, investigators believe, there are public calls for extremist activities and justification of terrorism, the press service of the Soviet District Court reported.

"Having reviewed the submitted materials and heard the opinions of the parties, the court granted the investigation's petition and detained the suspect for two months, until January 3, 2027," the publication on the court's website states.

The court's ruling did not name the arrested resident of Makhachkala, nor did it specify what kind of video material and comments the suspect published. The articles on calls for extremism via the internet (part 2 of article 280 of the Criminal Code) and on justifying terrorism on the internet (part 2 of article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) provide for up to five years and from five to seven years of imprisonment, respectively.

"Caucasian Knot" also reported that courts in southern Russia regularly sentence local residents to real terms in prison for publications on social networks under the article on justifying terrorism via the internet. It is impossible to establish the actual number of such sentences, as not all cases of justifying terrorism make it into public court records.

Thus, at the end of October, a resident of the village of Leninkent was fined 350,000 rubles on charges of justifying terrorism. The reason for the court proceedings was an audio recording he posted online. In mid-October, it became known that the Military Court in Rostov-on-Don would consider the case of a resident of Dagestan, whose publication on social media was deemed justifying terrorism by security forces. At the beginning of October, another resident of Makhachkala was charged with justifying terrorism.