Mukhamadyusup Ermatov
Mukhamadyusup Ermatov, born 1991, 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): twenty-seven years and ten months' imprisonment in a strict regime colony, a fine of 600,000 roubles. Status: imprisoned; place of detention: Penal colony No. 15, Krasnoyarsk Krai. 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 · Drivers, Construction workers · Terrorism cases
Sentence
27 years 10 months
twenty-seven years and ten months' imprisonment in a strict regime colony, a fine of 600,000 roubles
First instance, December 9, 2019: 28 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
At the initiative of Akbarjon Jalilov, he became a member of Katiba Tauhid wal-Jihad, placed his brother Ibragimjon Ermatov in a flat on Tovarischkiy Prospekt in St. Petersburg, together with Azamjon Makhmudov, Dilmurod Muidinov, Bakhrom Ergashev, Saifilla Hakimov and Makhamadyusuf Mirzaalimov, who, having succumbed to his persuasion, joined the terrorist group; passed on the information he received from them to Jalilov; obtained the components of an explosive device from Jalilov, further developed them together with his accomplices and kept them in his flat.
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 · 28 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
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
- Bakhrom Ergashev — Imprisoned, 18 years 11 months
- Ibrahimjon Ermatov — Imprisoned, 26 years 10 months
Write a letter
Facility: Penal colony No. 15, Krasnoyarsk Krai
Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
663305, Красноярский край, город Норильск, ул. Ветеранов, д.24, ФКУ ИК-15 ГУФСИН России по Красноярскому краю, Эрматов Мухамадюсуп Баходирович, 1991 г.р.
Details and sources
Full summary
Resident of St. Petersburg. According to Ermatov, he was detained on 5 April 2017 as he was leaving a hostel on Tovarishcheskiy Avenue in St. Petersburg. He was attacked by three men, one of them broke his nose. Later, his brother Ibragimyusup Ermatov, accused in the same case, said that he saw that Mukhamadyusup's car doors were unlocked, and the tyres punctured. Mukhamadyusup Ermatov, according to him, was taken to an unknown place, where he was held for more than a month, tortured with electric shocks and required to confess that he knew Akbarzhon Jalilov, who died in the terrorist attack in the St. Petersburg metro on 3 April 2017. Ermatov was officially detained in Druzhba Park in Moscow on 11 May 2017, after which he was placed in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention centre. In April 2019, he and the other defendants were transferred to the pre-trial detention centre in St. Petersburg. He was accused of involvement in the terrorist attack on the St. Petersburg metro, as human rights activists believe, without grounds.
On 10 December 2019, he was sentenced to 28 years in a strict regime colony. On 6 August 2021, the court of appeal reduced the sentence by two months.
All fields of the record
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- Kyrgyzstan
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