MOSCOW, June 2 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Supreme Court Friday handed down a ruling to outlaw two Islamic terrorist groups.
The court upheld a request from the Prosecutor General's office to put the Islamic Jihad Group (known in Russian as Jamaata Mojahedin) and Jund-al-Sham (Soldiers of the Levant) on the list of terrorist groups and to forbid them from operating in Russia.
The Supreme Court session was held behind closed doors with representatives from the Prosecutor General's Office and the Federal Security Service giving testimony.
"These organizations have been outlawed in a number of countries. They pose a danger to Russia," said Alexander Novokshchenov, a senior prosecutor, adding that they had carried out terrorist attacks in Chechnya, Uzbekistan, and Lebanon.
He said the ruling could be appealed within 10 days.
In 2003, the Supreme Court put 15 organizations on the list of terrorist groups and banned them from operating in Russia, including al Qaeda and Hizb ut-Tahrir.
