MOSCOW, January 24 (RAPSI, Oleg Sivozhelezov) – The Supreme Court of Russia has upheld a 2.5-year term in penal colony settlement given to Arslan Khirasulov for justifying terrorism, public calls for terrorism and extremism and incitement of hatred and enmity on the Internet, RAPSI reports from the courtroom on Tuesday.

The court thus dismissed appeals by the convict and his lawyer seeking for non-custodial punishment. The sentence has taken effect.

As a court of the first instance found, in October 2015, Khirasulov posted video on his social network page containing public calls for terrorism, justifying terrorist activity and aimed at incitement of hatred, enmity, humiliation of human dignity on religious and social grounds. Moreover, he commented on an extremist publication.