Zarema Bagavutdinova
Zarema Bagavutdinova, born 1968, Dagestan. Charges: Article 205.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Assisting in terrorist activities); “Bagavutdinova case”. Sentence (May 21, 2014): Five years of imprisonment in a general regime colony. Status: at large. Recognition: Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as a political prisoner, December 17, 2013.
In brief
Dagestan · Buynaksk · Human rights defenders · Terrorism cases
Sentence
5 years
Five years of imprisonment in a general regime colony
Upheld August 5, 2014
Charges
- Article 205.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Assisting in terrorist activities
Full wording of the charges
Bagavutdinova allegedly persuaded her acquaintance Mamma Dalgatov to join the ranks of an illegal armed group promising to marry him
Latest event
July 3, 2018 — imprisonment ends
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial Human Rights Centre, December 17, 2013
Timeline
· Imprisonment ends
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Persecution ends
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 5 years
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Pre-trial Detention Centre №1 (SIZO-1) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russian Federation for the Republic of Dagestan
· Persecution begins
Bagavutdinova case
Criminal case
Bagavutdinova case
Details and sources
Full summary
Zarema Bagavutdinova has been working at the Buynaksk branch of the Dagestani human rights organisation "Pravozaschita" since 2010, where she collected data on the fabrication of criminal cases, as well as detentions, torture and kidnappings. In May 2013, she actively provided the media and human rights organisations with information about law enforcement officers' violations during the counter-terrorist operation declared after the armed attack on Interior Ministry officers in the city of Buynaksk on 30 April 2013. In July 2013, she was detained on suspicion of complicity in the attack. Despite the lack of witnesses and evidence of guilt, the court kept the human rights defender in custody and then extended her arrest several times. At the same time, the essence of the charges changed dramatically several times during the investigation. In May 2014, the court found Bagavutdinova guilty of inducing a person to participate in an illegal armed group and sentenced her to five years in prison. In August, the court of second instance left the verdict unchanged.
Bagavutdinova was released in early July 2018.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
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