MMA fighter Ilyas Yakubov was arrested for a month and a half for a video with Shamil Basayev

The Chertanovsky Court of Moscow arrested until December 11 mixed martial arts fighter, a native of Chechnya, Ilyas Yakubov on charges of justifying terrorism. The athlete said that he does not consider himself guilty.

Ilyas Yakubov is charged with publicly justifying terrorist activities. In July, on his social network page, he posted a video with a monologue by Chechen field commander Shamil Basayev.