Inyal Balakadashev
Inyal Balakadashev, born 1983, Moscow. Charges: Article 205 item a (part unknown) applied with Article 30 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code (Preparation or attempt to commit a group terrorist attack); Article 222 part 3, Russian Criminal Code (Illicit trafficking in firearms or ammunition (by a group, using official positions or the Internet)); Article 223 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code (Manufacturing is understood as the creation of items specified by regulations without obtaining a…); “The case of the preparation of a terrorist attack in the "Kirgizia" cinema theatre”. Sentence (April 21, 2016): Eleven years' imprisonment in a strict regime colony. Status: at large. Recognition: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, April 30, 2017; Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, April 16, 2017.
In brief
Moscow · Moscow · Drivers · Terrorism cases
Sentence
11 years
Eleven years' imprisonment in a strict regime colony
Upheld May 15, 2017
Charges
- Article 205 item a (part unknown) applied with Article 30 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code — Preparation or attempt to commit a group terrorist attack
- Article 222 part 3, Russian Criminal Code — Illicit trafficking in firearms or ammunition (by a group, using official positions or the Internet)
- Article 223 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code — Manufacturing is understood as the creation of items specified by regulations without obtaining a license in the prescribed manner, where the items acquire the properties of firearms, ammunition, explosives, or explosive devices
Full wording of the charges
was part of a criminal group plotting a terrorist attack
Latest event
November 25, 2024 — imprisonment ends
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, April 30, 2017
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, April 16, 2017
Timeline
· Imprisonment ends
· Imprisonment begins
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· 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
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 11 years
· Persecution begins
The case of the preparation of a terrorist attack in the "Kirgizia" cinema theatre
Criminal case
The case of the preparation of a terrorist attack in the "Kirgizia" cinema theatre
Other defendants in the case
- Tagir Akhtakhanov — At large, 11 years
- Nurmagomed Balakadashev — At large, 11 years
- Artur Maslakov — Location unknown, 12 years
- Tazhib Mahmudov — Imprisoned, 13 years
- Matlyuba Nasimova — At large, 11 years
- Islam Ramazanov — At large, 11 years
- Ersmak Saraliyev — At large, 11 years
- Aslan Suleymanov — At large, 11 years
- Artur Tekilov — At large, 11 years
- Anzor Tekilov — At large, 11 years
- Tekilov Imran — Location unknown, 12 years
- Sergey Cheprasov — At large, 11 years
- Adam Shavkhalov — At large, 11 years
- Khoso Esmurzaev — At large, 11 years
Details and sources
Full summary
Resident of Moscow. Late in the evening of 26 November 2013, detained together with twelve other people during a raid on the hostel where he had checked in to stay overnight an hour before. Accused of preparing for a terrorist attack in the Kirgizia cinema.
Human rights activists believe that there is no convincing evidence of his involvement in the crime; in their opinion, the persecution was part of a campaign to pressure Muslims.
The case file contains the testimony of witness Timur Ozdoyev, who claims that in 2011 ten defendants, including Balakadashev, blocked his entrance to the mosque in the village of Ekazhevo in Ingushetia and insulted him, although, according to lawyers, Balakadashev was living and working in Rostov-on-Don at the time.
On 22 April 2016, he was sentenced to eleven years in a strict regime colony.
Presumably, he was released in November 2024.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 205 item a (part unknown) applied with Article 30 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.