Tulegen Akbatyrov
Tulegen Akbatyrov, born 1989, Orenburg Oblast. Charges: Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in the activities of an extremist organization); “The second Tablighi Jamaat case in Orenburg Region”. Sentence (May 30, 2019): 2 years' imprisonment and 1 year's restriction of liberty. Status: location unknown. Recognition: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, February 16, 2021; Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, February 9, 2021.
In brief
Orenburg Oblast · Orenburg · Shop assistants · Extremism cases
Sentence
2 years
imprisonment and 1 year's restriction of liberty
First instance, March 10, 2019: 2 years
Charges
- Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Participation in the activities of an extremist organization
Full wording of the charges
was a member of a cell of an extremist organisation
Latest event
January 28, 2024 — imprisonment ends
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, February 16, 2021
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, February 9, 2021
Timeline
· Imprisonment 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
· Appeal ruling
sentence changed · 2 years
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 2 years
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Persecution begins
The second Tablighi Jamaat case in Orenburg Region
Criminal case
The second Tablighi Jamaat case in Orenburg Region
Other defendants in the case
- Yerzhan Aitov — At large, 2 years
- Rakhimzhan Aimukhamedov — At large, 2 years
- Konstantin Dorokhin — At large, 2 years 6 months
- Kanat Krushenov — At large, 2 years 6 months
- Talgat Satubaldin — At large, 2 years
- Viacheslav Semakin — At large, 2 years
- Dilmurat Umerov — At large, 2 years
- Rifat Habibullin — At large, 2 years 6 months
- Alexandr Shudobaev — At large, 6 years 6 months
Details and sources
Full summary
On 6 July 2017, he was detained along with 18 others on suspicion of continuing the activities of an extremist organisation. He was released on his own recognizance pending trial. On 11 March 2019, he was sentenced to two years in a penal colony. He was released in January 2021.
Other people prosecuted under Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.