Aidar Garifianov
Aidar Garifianov, born 1976, Bashkortostan. Charges: Article 278 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Preparing for violent seizure of power or alteration of the constitutional order); Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Organization of the activities of an extremist organization); “The case of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Ufa”. Sentence (April 8, 2015): six years' imprisonment in a strict regime colony. Status: at large. Recognition: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, April 13, 2015; Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion, June 8, 2014.
In brief
Bashkortostan · Ufa · Entrepreneurs · Extremism cases, Cases against Hizb ut-Tahrir
Sentence
6 years
six years' imprisonment in a strict regime colony
No information about an appeal ruling.
Charges
- Article 278 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Preparing for violent seizure of power or alteration of the constitutional order
- Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Organization of the activities of an extremist organization
Full wording of the charges
Participated in the organisation of the Hizb ut-Tahrir cell activities and the preparation of a violent change in the constitutional order
Latest event
April 17, 2019 — imprisonment ends
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, April 13, 2015
- Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, June 8, 2014
Timeline
· Imprisonment ends
· Persecution ends
· Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion
Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 6 years
· Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
· Preventive measure: travel ban (written undertaking)
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Pre-trial Detention Centre №1 (SIZO-1) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russian Federation for the Republic of Bashkortostan
· Persecution begins
The case of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Ufa
Criminal case
The case of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Ufa
Other defendants in the case
- Evgeny Kulagin — At large, 7 years
- Rasim Satayev — At large, 6 years 6 months
- Alexey Khamadeev — At large, 6 years
Thematic group: Ufa case of Hizb ut-Tahrir
Details and sources
Full summary
Aidar Garifianov, along with three other residents of Bashkiria, was charged with participation in the activities of the organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami (Party of Islamic Liberation), which was recognised as a terrorist organisation in 2003 at a closed session of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, as well as with "preparation for actions aimed at forcible seizure of power, as well as forcible change of the constitutional order". According to the FSB version, in 2011-2012 the accused created a regional subdivision of the banned organisation in Bashkiria and were engaged in recruitment of supporters and organisation of pickets, meetings and conferences to promote the ideas of their organisation, as well as distribution of propaganda materials with calls "to overthrow and change the social and political order by armed means". Charges under part 1 of article 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation were brought on 8 November 2012. A preventive measure in the form of remand in custody was chosen. Due to changes in the CPC, the defendants were released in March 2013 (at the same time, the court ignored their legal request to change the measure of restraint for two months). On 26 August 2013, a case was opened under part 1 of article 30, article 278 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, merged with the previous one. On 27 May, the defendants were again remanded in custody. On 9 April 2015, he was sentenced to six years in a strict regime colony.
Released in April 2019
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 278 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.