Zafar Agamamedov
Zafar Agamamedov, born 1990, Irkutsk Oblast. Charges: Article 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Public incitement to terrorism or justification of terrorism (using media or the internet)); Article 280 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Public calls for extremism (using mass media or the internet)); “Zafar Agamamedov's case on incitement to extremism and terrorism”. Sentence (September 11, 2025): 8 years' imprisonment in a strict regime colony and a ban on engaging in public activities in public use information and… Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since January 31, 2025; place of detention: Penal colony No. 6, Irkutsk Oblast.
In brief
Sentence
8 years
imprisonment in a strict regime colony and a ban on engaging in public activities in public use information and telecommunication networks for 4 years
No information about an appeal ruling.
Charges
- Article 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Public incitement to terrorism or justification of terrorism (using media or the internet)
- Article 280 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Public calls for extremism (using mass media or the internet)
Full wording of the charges
The court found that in December 2024 and January 2025, the defendant posted comments with unlawful content on the messenger Telegram. Through these postings, he called for violence against state authorities, including police officers. In addition, over the course of a year, the man grew 25 bushes of the drug plant "cannabis" in his garage, which is a large scale. He also kept in his garage at least 212 grams of cut parts of this plant for personal use.
Latest event
September 11, 2025 — first-instance verdict
The court delivered a guilty verdict: 8 years.
Timeline
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 8 years
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Persecution begins
Zafar Agamamedov's case on incitement to extremism and terrorism
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Criminal case
Zafar Agamamedov's case on incitement to extremism and terrorism
- Case number
- 1-123/2025
Write a letter
Facility: Penal colony No. 6, Irkutsk Oblast
Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
664058, Иркутская область, г. Иркутск, ул. Булавина д. 1, ФКУ «ИК № 6 ГУФСИН России по Иркутской области», Агамамедов Зафар Сахават оглы, 1990 г.р.
Details and sources
Full summary
Resident of the Irkutsk region. On 31 January 2025, he was detained in a case of incitement to terrorism because of a comment in Telegram. On the same day he was taken into custody.
Agamamedov was then charged with incitement to extremism, as well as illegal possession and cultivation of plants containing narcotic drugs. The prosecutor's office claims that the man called for violence against representatives of the authorities, including police officers, as well as grew 25 cannabis bushes in his garage and stored at least 212 grammes of cannabis there for personal use. Agamamedov pleaded guilty only to the cannabis-related episodes.
On 11 September 2025, the court sentenced him to eight years in a strict regime colony.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
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