Marat Dindarov
Marat Dindarov, born 1978, Tatarstan. Charges: Article 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in the activities of a terrorist organization); “The case of Marat Dindarov and Ibrahim Shavkatov”. Sentence (December 27, 2017): seven years' imprisonment in a general regime penal colony. Status: at large. Recognition: Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, February 27, 2018; Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, February 11, 2018.
In brief
Tatarstan · Electricians · Terrorism cases, Cases against Hizb ut-Tahrir
Sentence
7 years
seven years' imprisonment in a general regime penal colony
Upheld March 28, 2018
Charges
- Article 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Participation in the activities of a terrorist organization
Full wording of the charges
participated in the activities of a cell of a terrorist organisation
Latest event
March 1, 2023 — imprisonment ends
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, February 27, 2018
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, February 11, 2018
Timeline
· Imprisonment ends
· Persecution ends
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion
Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 7 years
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Pre-trial Detention Centre №5 (SIZO-5) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation for the Rostov Oblast
· Persecution begins
The case of Marat Dindarov and Ibrahim Shavkatov
Criminal case
The case of Marat Dindarov and Ibrahim Shavkatov
Other defendants in the case
- Ibrahim Shavkatov — At large, 6 years
Thematic group: Third Hizb ut-Tahrir case in Tatarstan
Details and sources
Full summary
In March 2016, he was detained after a search and arrested the next day on charges of participation in the activities of a terrorist organisation. On 28 December 2017, he was sentenced to seven years in a general regime penal colony. The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation approved the sentence.
Dindarov was kept in isolation in the colony for over a year, searched daily, stripped naked and filmed on video.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.