September 5, 2026, 7:45 AMTELEGRAMRSSRU
Political persecutionЧитать по-русски →

Islam Belokiev

Not in RussiaChecked against the source: September 5, 2026, 6:09 AM
Criminal Code
Article 207.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
Case category
Anti-war casesCases against "foreign agents"
Region
Ingushetia
City
Magas

Case summary

Blogger. In 2021 he was prosecuted for rehabilitation of Nazism and in January 2022 for public justification of terrorism. Residing outside Russia, he was put on an international wanted list and arrested in absentia. In the summer of 2022, he became a spokesman for the Chechen volunteer battalion named after Sheikh Mansur, fighting on the side of Ukraine. After that it became known that a case was also opened against Belokiev for participation in an armed conflict on the territory of a foreign state for purposes contrary to the interests of the Russian Federation.

Others charged under Article 207.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code

All 126 under this article →

What we write about political persecution

Recent material from this section. This is section navigation — the articles below are not about this person.

All material in this section →

Source: this person’s record in the OVD-Info political persecution database

Published under CC BY 3.0. The criteria for treating a person as politically persecuted belong to OVD-Info; FACTUM relays their assessment and makes none of its own.

OVD-Info has been designated an «extremist» organisation in Russia — by decision of the Russian authorities, like other independent human rights and media projects.