Radik Galimjanov
Radik Galimjanov, born 1963, Saratov Oblast. Charges: Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Organization of the activities of an extremist organization); “The case of six”. Sentence (August 12, 2020): 1 year 4 months' deprivation of liberty in a general regime penal colony, 1 year of restriction of liberty. Status: at large.
In brief
Saratov Oblast · Saratov · Shop assistants · Extremism cases
Sentence
1 year 4 months
deprivation of liberty in a general regime penal colony, 1 year of restriction of liberty
No information about an appeal ruling.
Charges
- Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Organization of the activities of an extremist organization
Full wording of the charges
He exchanged extremist literature with other defendants, flew to Jordan, Qatar and Kuwait, where he received training in religious centres, attempted to establish a local "Tablighi Jamaat" community and organised "bayan" (meetings for the purpose of preaching)
Latest event
August 17, 2022 — persecution ends
Timeline
· Persecution ends
· Removed from the Rosfinmonitoring list
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 1 year 4 months
· Preventive measure: travel ban (written undertaking)
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
· Persecution begins
The case of six
Criminal case
The case of six
Other defendants in the case
- Mukhambetzhan Akhmetov — At large, 1 year 4 months
- Bakhtiar Baikulov — At large, 1 year 4 months
- Aslan Makhmaliev — At large, 1 year 4 months
- Aidyngali Mindagaliev — At large, 3 years
Thematic group: Saratov Tablighi Jamaat case
Details and sources
Full summary
He was detained at the end of January 2019, placed in custody on 30 January on charges of organising activities of an extremist organisation. On 24 December, he was released on the recognisance not to leave.
On 5 March 2020, in connection with the actions of the investigation and the court, filed a criminal complaint with the Military Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of Russia and the Prosecutor's Office of the Saratov region, demanding initiating a criminal case under Art. 299 and 301 of the Criminal Code (bringing a knowingly innocent person to criminal responsibility, illegal detention) due to the fact that the evidence in the case was collected in May-October 2018, but the official publication of information on the recognition of "Tablighi Jamaat" as an extremist organisation took place in "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" only on 13 December of the same year.
On 13 August, he was sentenced to a year and four months of imprisonment in a general regime penal colony and a year of restriction of freedom. The court considered the term of imprisonment served.
Other people prosecuted under Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.