MOSCOW, August 17 (RAPSI, Lyudmila Klenko) - Patimat Gadzhieva, a medical student who stands accused of  justifying terrorism, has pleaded not guilty to the charges, RAPSI reported from the Moscow District Military Court on Wednesday.

However, Gadzhiyeva admitted that she had posted symbols of the Islamic State, a terrorist organization banned in Russia, on her social media account; but, according to the defendant, she had not intended to justify terrorism.

On Wednesday, a prosecutor read out an indictment to Gadzhiyeva.

According to case files, in the summer of 2015, the student posted an image on a social network depicting representative of ISIS and “a scene of execution”. A copy of text in Russian was copied by Gadzhieva in the form of a prayer. She deleted the image after 13 days, but Russian authorities found the posting in Vkontakte’s archive and launched a criminal case against the student in November 2015.

Gadzhieva is could face a prison term if convicted.