Azamat Abutalipov
Azamat Abutalipov, born 1988, Bashkortostan. Charges: Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Organization of the activities of an extremist organization); “The case of the Nursists in Bashkortostan”. Sentence (June 26, 2017): four years' imprisonment in a general regime penal colony. Status: at large. Recognition: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, May 30, 2019; Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, May 26, 2019.
In brief
Bashkortostan · Ufa · Journalists · Extremism cases
Sentence
4 years
four years' imprisonment in a general regime penal colony
First instance, March 19, 2017: 4 years
Charges
- Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Organization of the activities of an extremist organization
Full wording of the charges
held tea parties for pupils of boarding lyceums and public schools, during which he promoted the ideas of a banned organisation and invited students to live together in "home madrasas".
Latest event
June 1, 2021 — imprisonment ends
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, May 30, 2019
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, May 26, 2019
Timeline
· Imprisonment ends
· Persecution ends
· Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion
Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners
· Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
· Appeal ruling
sentence changed · 4 years
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 4 years
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Persecution begins
The case of the Nursists in Bashkortostan
Criminal case
The case of the Nursists in Bashkortostan
Other defendants in the case
- Airat Ibragimov — At large, 2 years
- Timur Munasypov — At large, 2 years
- Aivar Habibullin — At large, 2 years 3 months
- Shamil Khusnitdinov — At large, 1 year 10 months
Thematic group: The case of the Nursists in Bashkortostan
Details and sources
Full summary
Azamat Abutalipov, former correspondent of the newspaper "Kiske Ufa", was accused of organising the activities of a cell of the organisation "Nurdzhular", the existence of which has not been proven. On 20 March 2017, he was sentenced to four years of suspended prison sentence. On 27 June, the appeal instance replaced the sentence with a real one. He was released in June 2021.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.