Varvara Karaulova was freed from prison in Vologda, a city around 450km northeast of Moscow, the RIA Novosti news agency reported.A military court sentenced Karaulova to four and a half years in prison in 2016 for trying to enter Syria after falling in love with an Islamic State jihadist.
She was detained a year earlier after she tried to cross into Syria from Turkey while still a philosophy undergraduate at the renowned Moscow State University.AdvertisementKaraulova's case shocked Russia in 2016, as the then 21-year-old wept in court and said her attempt to cross in Syria was"all a mistake".
She met him online while still a teenager and they wrote to each other for three years without meeting. In 2014, he went to Syria and told her he was fighting for Islamic State. Karaulova converted to Islam and began wearing a hijab. She disappeared without warning in May 2015, prompting a frantic search by her parents. They found that she had flown to Turkey and travelled to the border with other women hoping to join men fighting for Islamic State.Thousands of people from the former USSR have travelled to Syria to fight with Islamists, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin, since Moscow intervened on the side of the Damascus regime in 2015.
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