MOSCOW, August 29 (RAPSI) – Investigation into the case against Varvara Karaulova (Alexandra Ivanova), the Moscow State University’s student, who stands charged with attempting to join the Islamic State militants in Syria, has been completed, RIA Novosti reported on Monday citing her lawyer Sergei Badamshin.
Karaulova and her defense began reading case materials, the agency quoted Badamshin as having said.
As previously reported the second-year student of the Moscow State University’s Faculty of Philosophy, allegedly decided to join the Islamic State and secretly started off for Istanbul on May 27.
On June 4, she was arrested near Turkey's border with Syria along with 13 other Russian citizens when attempting to cross into the territory occupied by Islamic State militants. On June 11, she returned to Russia under escort of Interpol employees.
In October, Karaulova, who had changed her name to Alexandra Ivanova, was again arrested in Moscow and put in jail.
She has been found sane by the psychiatric evaluation.
The student did not plead guilty and stated that she was not going to become a terrorist.