Mukhambetzhan Akhmetov
Mukhambetzhan Akhmetov, born 1959, Saratov Oblast. Charges: Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Organization of the activities of an extremist organization); “The case of six”. Sentence (August 12, 2020): 1 year 4 months' deprivation of liberty in a general regime colony, 1 year of restricted liberty. Status: at large.
In brief
Saratov Oblast · Saratov · Pensioners · Extremism cases
Sentence
1 year 4 months
deprivation of liberty in a general regime colony, 1 year of restricted liberty
No information about an appeal ruling.
Charges
- Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Organization of the activities of an extremist organization
Full wording of the charges
exchanged extremist literature with other defendants, flew to Jordan, Qatar and Kuwait, where he received training in religious centres, attempted to establish a local Tablighi Jamaat cell and organised "bayan" (meetings for the purpose of preaching)
Latest event
August 12, 2020 — first-instance verdict
The court delivered a guilty verdict: 1 year 4 months.
Timeline
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 1 year 4 months
· Preventive measure: travel ban (written undertaking)
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Persecution begins
The case of six
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Criminal case
The case of six
Other defendants in the case
- Bakhtiar Baikulov — At large, 1 year 4 months
- Radik Galimjanov — At large, 1 year 4 months
- Aslan Makhmaliev — At large, 1 year 4 months
- Aidyngali Mindagaliev — At large, 3 years
Thematic group: Saratov Tablighi Jamaat case
Details and sources
Full summary
He was detained at the end of January 2019, taken into custody on 30 January on charges of organising the activities of an extremist organisation. On 24 December, he was released on personal recognizance.
On 5 March 2020, in connection with the actions of the investigation and the court, he filed a criminal complaint with the Military Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of Russia and the Prosecutor's Office of the Saratov region, demanding to initiate criminal proceedings under Articles 299 and 301 of the Criminal Code (bringing a knowingly innocent person to criminal responsibility, unlawful detention) due to the fact that the evidence in the case was collected in May-October 2018, but the information aboutrecognising Tablighi Jamaat as an extremist organisation was officially published in Rossiyskaya Gazeta as late as 13 December of the same year.
On 13 August, he was sentenced to a year and four months of imprisonment in a general regime colony and a year of restriction of freedom. The court considered the term of imprisonment served.
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.