Bakhtiar Baikulov
Bakhtiar Baikulov, born 1978, Saratov Oblast. Charges: Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Organization of the activities of an extremist organization); “The case of six”. Sentence (August 12, 2020): 1 year 4 months' deprivation of liberty in a general regime penal colony, 1 year of restrictions on freedom. Status: at large.
In brief
Saratov Oblast · Saratov · Farmers · Extremism cases
Sentence
1 year 4 months
deprivation of liberty in a general regime penal colony, 1 year of restrictions on freedom
No information about an appeal ruling.
Charges
- Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Organization of the activities of an extremist organization
Full wording of the charges
exchanged extremist literature with other defendants, flew to Jordan, Qatar and Kuwait, where he received training in religious centres, attempted to establish a local Tablighi Jamaat cell and organised "bayan" (meetings for the purpose of preaching)
Latest event
August 12, 2020 — first-instance verdict
The court delivered a guilty verdict: 1 year 4 months.
Timeline
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 1 year 4 months
· Preventive measure: travel ban (written undertaking)
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
· Persecution begins
The case of six
Criminal case
The case of six
Other defendants in the case
- Mukhambetzhan Akhmetov — At large, 1 year 4 months
- Radik Galimjanov — At large, 1 year 4 months
- Aslan Makhmaliev — At large, 1 year 4 months
- Aidyngali Mindagaliev — At large, 3 years
Thematic group: Saratov Tablighi Jamaat case
Details and sources
Full summary
Detained at the end of January 2019, placed in custody on 30 January on charges of organising activities of an extremist organisation. On 24 December, he was released on his own recognisance.
On 5 March 2020, in connection with the actions of the investigation and the court, filed a criminal complaint with the Military Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of Russia and the Prosecutor's Office of the Saratov region, demanding a criminal case under Art. 299 and 301 of the Criminal Code (bringing a knowingly innocent person to criminal responsibility, illegal detention) due to the fact that the evidence in the case was collected in May-October 2018, but the official publication of information on the recognition of Tablighi Jamaat as an extremist organisation took place in Rossiyskaya Gazeta only on 13 December of the same year.
On 13 August, he was sentenced to a year and four months in prison and a year of restriction of freedom in a general regime penal colony. The court considered the term of imprisonment served.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.