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Shafkat Alsynbaev

ImprisonedChecked October 18, 2026

Shafkat Alsynbaev, born 1990, Bashkortostan. Charges: Article 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in the activities of a terrorist organization); “The case of Shavkat Alsynbayev and Ainur Sagadeev”. Sentence (March 26, 2019): Twelve years' imprisonment in a high security prison. Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since June 7, 2017; place of detention: Penal colony No. 5, Tatarstan. Recognition: Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, August 4, 2019.

In brief

Bashkortostan · Baymak · Terrorism cases, Cases against Hizb ut-Tahrir

Sentence

12 years

Twelve years' imprisonment in a high security prison

Verdict March 26, 2019

Upheld June 12, 2019

Charges

Full wording of the charges

participated in the activities of a terrorist cell

Latest event

August 4, 2019 — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion

Memorial Human Rights Centre

Checked October 18, 2026 · no changes since October 15

Recognition by rights defenders

Timeline

  1. · Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion

    Memorial Human Rights Centre

  2. · Appeal ruling

    upheld

  3. · First-instance verdict

    guilty verdict · 12 years

  4. · Preventive measure: pre-trial detention

  5. · Persecution begins

    The case of Shavkat Alsynbayev and Ainur Sagadeev

  6. · Removed from the Rosfinmonitoring list

Criminal case

The case of Shavkat Alsynbayev and Ainur Sagadeev

Other defendants in the case

Thematic group: The case of "Hizb ut-Tahrir" in Sibai

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Facility: Penal colony No. 5, Tatarstan

Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)

422500, Татарстан, Зеленодольский р- н, пос. Нижние Вязовые, ул.Комсомольская д.1, ФКУ ИК № 5 УФСИН России по Республике Татарстан, Алсынбаев Шафкат Салимьянович, 1990 г.р.

Address checked October 18, 2026

Details and sources

Full summary

According to OVD-Info

In early June 2017, detained and arrested on charges of participation in the activities of a terrorist organisation due to alleged involvement in the Islamist party Hizb ut-Tahrir, which is not known to be involed in terrorist activity. On 27 March, 2019, he was sentenced to 12 years in a high security prison.

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