Bakhrom Ergashev
Bakhrom Ergashev, born 1978, Saint Petersburg. Charges: Article 205 part 3, Russian Criminal Code (Terrorist attack (involving the use of hazardous substances or causing the death of a person)); Article 205 part 3 item b applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Preparation for committing a terrorist attack resulting in the negligent death of a person); Article 205 part 3 item b applied with Article 30 part 3, Russian Criminal Code (Attempt to commit a terrorist attack resulting in the death of a person); “The case of April 3 terrorist attack in the St. Petersburg metro in 2017”. Sentence (December 15, 2022): Eighteen years and eleven months' imprisonment in a strict regime colony, a fine of 500,000 roubles. Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since April 7, 2016; place of detention: Penal colony No. 8, Buryatia. Recognition: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as a political prisoner, February 25, 2021; Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as a political prisoner, January 25, 2021.
In brief
Saint Petersburg · Saint Petersburg · Manual workers · Terrorism cases
Sentence
18 years 11 months
Eighteen years and eleven months' imprisonment in a strict regime colony, a fine of 500,000 roubles
First instance, December 9, 2019: 19 years
Charges
- Article 205 part 3, Russian Criminal Code — Terrorist attack (involving the use of hazardous substances or causing the death of a person)
- Article 205 part 3 item b applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Preparation for committing a terrorist attack resulting in the negligent death of a person
- Article 205 part 3 item b applied with Article 30 part 3, Russian Criminal Code — Attempt to commit a terrorist attack resulting in the death of a person
- Article 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Participation in a terrorist community
- Article 222.1 part 3, Russian Criminal Code — Illegal acquisition, transfer, storage, transportation, shipment, or carrying of explosives or explosive devices committed by an organized group of people
- Article 223.1 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code — Illegal manufacture of explosives
Full wording of the charges
Entered a terrorist community, which involved surveying the area around the house where they lived for suitable locations for a terrorist attack, looking for escape routes in case of detection by law enforcement agencies, visiting metro stations and looking for points where they could evade searches, studying the locations of suspected terrorist attacks; passing the information gathered to Akbarjon Jalilov through Mukhamadyusup Ermatov; participating in the finalisation of components of an explosive device.
Latest event
December 15, 2022 — cassation
The court upheld the verdict.
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, February 25, 2021
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial Human Rights Centre, January 25, 2021
Timeline
· Cassation ruling
upheld
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 19 years
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Persecution begins
The case of April 3 terrorist attack in the St. Petersburg metro in 2017
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Criminal case
The case of April 3 terrorist attack in the St. Petersburg metro in 2017
Other defendants in the case
- Shokhista Karimova — Imprisoned, 19 years 11 months
- Azamjon Makhmudov — Imprisoned, 19 years 11 months
- Mahamadyusuf Mirzaalimov — Imprisoned, 19 years 11 months
- Dilmurod Muidinov — Imprisoned, 19 years 11 months
- Sodik Ortikov — Imprisoned, 21 years 11 months
- Sayfilla Hakimov — Imprisoned, 18 years 11 months
- Ibrahimjon Ermatov — Imprisoned, 26 years 10 months
- Mukhamadyusup Ermatov — Imprisoned, 27 years 10 months
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Facility: Penal colony No. 8, Buryatia
Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
670042, г.Улан-Удэ, Спиртзаводской тракт, 4 км, ФКУ «ИК № 8 УФСИН России по Республике Бурятия», Эргашев Бахром Хасилович, 1978 г.р.
Details and sources
Full summary
Resident of St. Petersburg. Detained on 6 April 2017. He was taken into custody on charges of involvement in the terrorist attack in the St. Petersburg metro on 3 April 2017, as human rights activists believe, without grounds. First held in a pre-trial detention centre in St. Petersburg, then transferred to Moscow, in April 2019 he, like the other defendants, was taken to St. Petersburg.
On 10 December, he was sentenced to 19 years in a strict regime colony. On 6 August 2021, the court of appeal reduced the term by a month.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Kyrgyzstan
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