<p class="title">A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced 11 people to terms including life in prison after finding them guilty of a deadly bomb attack on the Saint Petersburg metro in 2017.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Abror Azimov, a 29-year-old from Kyrgyzstan, was sentenced by a military court in Russia's second-biggest city to life in prison for organising and participating in a terrorist group.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Ten other people who are also from Central Asia were sentenced to between 19 and 28 years in prison.</p>.<p class="bodytext">All had denied the charges and said they were tortured.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Shokhista Karimova, 48, pounded the glass of the courtroom cage and cried "let me go" after she was handed a 20-year term.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The bomb blast in April 2017 killed 15 people in the Saint Petersburg metro and wounded dozens more.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The alleged perpetrator, Akbarjon Djalilov, a 22-year-old from Kyrgyzstan, died in the attack.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Ten of the defendants were accused of acting as accomplices, notably by providing Djalilov with explosives and false documents.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The charges ranged from organising a terrorist group and perpetuating an "act of terror" to weapons trafficking and making explosive devices.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Critics of the case say the defendants' connection to the attack was not proven and some claimed they were framed by Russia's FSB security service.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The suspects had been arrested in different Russian cities and detained in Moscow before being transferred to Saint Petersburg for the trial.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The prosecution said the defendants formed two "terrorist cells" in Moscow and Saint Petersburg and helped Djalilov by wiring him money and providing the explosives.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Defence lawyers and prison monitors have pointed to numerous irregularities in the case however and claim that evidence was planted.</p>.<p class="bodytext">One defendant claimed he was kidnapped from a hospital in Kyrgyzstan, while another said last month that they had been framed by the FSB after it "missed the terrorist".</p>.<p class="bodytext">The bombing was claimed by an obscure group, the Imam Shamil Battalion, which experts say is linked to Al-Qaeda. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Representative Image.</p>
<p class="title">A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced 11 people to terms including life in prison after finding them guilty of a deadly bomb attack on the Saint Petersburg metro in 2017.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Abror Azimov, a 29-year-old from Kyrgyzstan, was sentenced by a military court in Russia's second-biggest city to life in prison for organising and participating in a terrorist group.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Ten other people who are also from Central Asia were sentenced to between 19 and 28 years in prison.</p>.<p class="bodytext">All had denied the charges and said they were tortured.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Shokhista Karimova, 48, pounded the glass of the courtroom cage and cried "let me go" after she was handed a 20-year term.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The bomb blast in April 2017 killed 15 people in the Saint Petersburg metro and wounded dozens more.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The alleged perpetrator, Akbarjon Djalilov, a 22-year-old from Kyrgyzstan, died in the attack.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Ten of the defendants were accused of acting as accomplices, notably by providing Djalilov with explosives and false documents.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The charges ranged from organising a terrorist group and perpetuating an "act of terror" to weapons trafficking and making explosive devices.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Critics of the case say the defendants' connection to the attack was not proven and some claimed they were framed by Russia's FSB security service.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The suspects had been arrested in different Russian cities and detained in Moscow before being transferred to Saint Petersburg for the trial.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The prosecution said the defendants formed two "terrorist cells" in Moscow and Saint Petersburg and helped Djalilov by wiring him money and providing the explosives.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Defence lawyers and prison monitors have pointed to numerous irregularities in the case however and claim that evidence was planted.</p>.<p class="bodytext">One defendant claimed he was kidnapped from a hospital in Kyrgyzstan, while another said last month that they had been framed by the FSB after it "missed the terrorist".</p>.<p class="bodytext">The bombing was claimed by an obscure group, the Imam Shamil Battalion, which experts say is linked to Al-Qaeda. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Representative Image.</p>