Tahir Arslanov
Tahir Arslanov is listed as imprisoned, but other details in the same record do not agree:
- the 2 years 10 months term (verdict of August 22, 2024), counted from December 4, 2023 without credit for time served, ended on October 3, 2026.
Tahir Arslanov, born 1956, Novosibirsk Oblast. Charges: Article 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Public incitement to terrorism or justification of terrorism (using media or the internet)); Article 212 part 3, Russian Criminal Code (Incitement to mass riots); Article 280 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Public calls for extremism (using mass media or the internet)); “Tahir Arslanov's case on calls to extremism, mass riots and terrorism”. Sentence (August 22, 2024): 2 years 10 months of deprivation of liberty in a general regime penal colony. Recognition: Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners — recognised as a political prisoner, November 17, 2023.
In brief
Novosibirsk Oblast · Novosibirsk · Engineers, Pensioners · Anti-war cases, Terrorism cases, Extremism cases
Sentence
2 years 10 months
of deprivation of liberty in a general regime penal colony
First instance, August 2, 2023: 3 years
Charges
- Article 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Public incitement to terrorism or justification of terrorism (using media or the internet)
- Article 212 part 3, Russian Criminal Code — Incitement to mass riots
- Article 280 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Public calls for extremism (using mass media or the internet)
Full wording of the charges
As it follows from Arslanov's own words, prosecution was encouraged by two publications related to the arson of the military enlistment office of Kirov and Leninsky districts, which took place on 29 September 2022.
Latest event
August 22, 2024 — cassation
The court upheld the verdict.
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners, November 17, 2023
Timeline
· Cassation ruling
upheld
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 3 years
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Pre-trial Detention Centre №1 (SIZO-1) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russian Federation for Novosibirsk Oblast
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Persecution begins
Tahir Arslanov's case on calls to extremism, mass riots and terrorism
Criminal case
Tahir Arslanov's case on calls to extremism, mass riots and terrorism
Thematic group: Anti-war case
Details and sources
Full summary
There were two searches in Arslanov's house, during them law enforcers broke down the flat door. According to him, he was interrogated until five o'clock in the morning, meanwhile it was claimed that he was in the status of a witness. Arslanov was initially told that he was investigated for arson. Arslanov admits that the publications that encouraged prosecution were "protesting and very harsh"; he explained that by the fact that his daughter lives in Kiev and slept in a bomb shelter. He was on personal recognizance. On 2 August 2023, Arslanov was sentenced to three years in a general regime penal colony. Local councillor Svetlana Kaverzina, who corresponded with Arslanov, claimed that his cat was killed during the search. On 4 December 2023, an appeals court reduced the sentence by two months.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Place of detention
- Penal colony No. 5, Altai Krai
Other people prosecuted under Article 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.