Fatikh Akhmetshin
- Criminal Code
- Article 212 part 2, Russian Criminal CodeArticle 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
- Case category
- Cases related to mass actions
- Verdict
- Imprisonment (general regime)
- Sentence
- 4 years 6 months
- Date of verdict
- 2025-02-07
- Region
- BashkortostanUdmurtia
- City
- Izhevsk, Ufa
Recognition by human rights organisations
- Recognised as a political prisonerby Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners, 14 August 2025
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Case summary
A resident of Bashkortostan. On 23 January 2024, he was detained at home. On 25 January, he was remanded in custody within the framework of a case on participation in mass riots, initiated in connection with a public gathering in Baymak on 17 January in support of activist Fail Alsynov. On 7 February 2025, Akhmetshin was sentenced to four and a half years in a general-regime penal colony. On 29 December 2025, the court replaced the remainder of the sentence with a more lenient punishment.
Others charged under Article 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
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