The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don handed down sentences to five inmates of the local pretrial detention center (SIZO-1) over the June 2024 hostage-taking. Daniil Kamnev received 29 years in a strict-regime colony, with the first 12 years to be served in prison, plus a fine of 300,000 rubles. Malik Gandaloev was sentenced to 28 years (first 7 years in prison, fine of 500,000 rubles), Adam Kodzoev to 26 years (first 10 years in prison, fine of 660,000 rubles). Magomed Alkhanov was given 23 years, and Ramzan Albekov 21 years; both were ordered to spend their first 7 years in prison.
According to the court, Kamnev, Albekov and Alkhanov swore allegiance to the Islamic State in 2024 and began spreading its ideology inside the detention facility. Under the plan of the organized group, allegedly created by an unnamed person, the inmates were to escape from their cell, seize weapons from the facility's armory and take staff hostage. They then intended to record a video with Islamic State symbols and demand that authorities halt counterterrorism operations in the North Caucasus and Syria, before leaving the facility in provided vehicles.
On the night of June 16, 2024, Kamnev, Gandaloev and other group members pulled out sawed-off bars and descended from the cell on a rope made of sheets. Alkhanov and Albekov failed to escape when the rope broke. After getting out, Gandaloev attacked a detention officer with a sharpened object but was detained. Kamnev and another inmate seized two guards; the hostages were freed during a storming of the facility.
Four inmates directly involved in the hostage-taking were killed by security forces. Kamnev survived, sustaining a head wound. The men were found guilty of attempted escape, hostage-taking, participation in a terrorist organization and other crimes.
Following the storming, the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) conducted an internal review: four employees were dismissed and 16 received disciplinary sanctions. The head of the FSIN department for the Rostov region, Dmitry Bezrukikh, and his first deputy, Vasily Gordeev, resigned. The human rights center Memorial reported possible torture of inmates from the North Caucasus held in the facility after the events, including Alkhanov and Gandaloev. Alkhanov denied involvement in the escape plot, saying that on the morning of June 16 he discovered that some cellmates had disappeared.