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Bavarian authorities launched an investigation against asylum-seeker Mokhmad Abdurakhmanov over content he posted on his Facebook account, namely a DW article on “Islamic State” (IS) weapon suppliers and a separate video apparently showing Israeli military dogs biting a Palestinian child.
He is now suspected of violating the bans on displaying IS symbols and propagating graphic violence.
German police interrogated Abdurakhmanov, a 23-year-old refugee from the Russian state of Chechnya, after searching through his room in a Bavarian refugee shelter and seizing two of his smartphones, a tablet and several USB drives on May 17.
During the search, the authorities also found a flag of the ‘Chechen Republic of Ichkeria’ — an entity established by Chechen separatists in the early 1990s — in Abdurakhmanov’s room.