Akhmet Dzhumaev
Akhmet Dzhumaev, born 1965, Moscow. Charges: Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in the activities of an extremist organization); “The Tablighi Jamaat case in Moscow”. Sentence (September 16, 2018): 4 years' deprivation of liberty in a general regime penal colony with restriction of liberty for 6 months. Status: not in Russia. Recognition: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, December 25, 2018; Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, December 11, 2018.
In brief
Moscow · Moscow · Extremism cases
Sentence
4 years
deprivation of liberty in a general regime penal colony with restriction of liberty for 6 months
Upheld April 28, 2019
Charges
- Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Participation in the activities of an extremist organization
Full wording of the charges
participated in the activities of an extremist organisation, travelled to India to the headquarters of Tablighi Jamaat
Latest event
October 1, 2019 — imprisonment ends
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, December 25, 2018
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, December 11, 2018
Timeline
· Imprisonment ends
· 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 · 4 years
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
· Persecution begins
The Tablighi Jamaat case in Moscow
Criminal case
The Tablighi Jamaat case in Moscow
Other defendants in the case
- Bekzod Bakirov — Location unknown, 4 years
- Islambek Kamchybekov — Location unknown, 6 years 6 months
- Shakir Kozhamkulov — Not in Russia, 6 years 6 months
- Gazybek Kubatov — Not in Russia, 4 years
- Zufar Mustafin — Location unknown, 4 years
- Kanybek Suiunduk uulu — Not in Russia, 6 years 6 months
- Airat Usmanov — Location unknown, 4 years
Thematic group: Moscow case of Tablighi Jamaat
Details and sources
Full summary
Detained on 22 December 2016 together with six other people on suspicion of involvement in Tablighi Jamaat, arrested. On 17 September 2018, he was sentenced to four years in a general regime colony. In October 2019, he was released, after which he was detained on charges of violating migration laws (he had previously been deprived of Russian citizenship). The court decided to fine him and expel him from the country.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Turkmenistan
Other people prosecuted under Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.