Azat Gataullin
Azat Gataullin, born 1974, Tatarstan. Charges: Article 205.1 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code (Assisting or financing terrorist activities); Article 205.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Public incitement to terrorism, or justification of terrorism); “The case of Azat Gataullin on the facilitation and justification of terrorist activities”, opened on January 1, 2023. Sentenced on May 15, 2024; previously convicted under Article 205.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code; Article 205.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code; Article 205.5 part 1, Russian Criminal Code. Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since March 15, 2017; place of detention: Prison, Krasnoyarsk Krai. Recognition: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, July 17, 2019; Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, July 8, 2019.
In brief
Tatarstan, Udmurtia · Izhevsk, Kazan · Unemployed · Terrorism cases, Cases against Hizb ut-Tahrir
Sentence
No information about an appeal ruling.
Other verdicts
- February 4, 2020 — Nineteen years' imprisonment in a strict regime colony
Charges
- Article 205.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Assisting in terrorist activities
- Article 205.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Assisting to or financing terrorist activities through an official position
- Article 205.5 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Organizing the activities of a terrorist organization
- Article 205.1 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code — Assisting or financing terrorist activities
- Article 205.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Public incitement to terrorism, or justification of terrorism
Full wording of the charges
Apparently, the person convicted for involvement in Hizb ut-Tahrir is accused of promoting the activities of the organisation to prisoners and encouraging them to join it.
Latest event
May 15, 2024 — first-instance verdict
The court issued a ruling.
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, July 17, 2019
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, July 8, 2019
Timeline
· First-instance verdict
· Criminal case opened
The case of Azat Gataullin on the facilitation and justification of terrorist activities
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 19 years
· 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
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Pre-trial Detention Centre №2 (SIZO-2) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Tatarstan
· Persecution begins
The case of "Hizb ut-Tahrir" in Kazan
Criminal case
The case of "Hizb ut-Tahrir" in Kazan
Other defendants in the case
- Ruslan Gabidullin — Imprisoned, 19 years
- Sergey Derzhipilsky — Imprisoned, 16 years
- Ilnar Zyalilov — Imprisoned, 22 years
- Farid Kryev — Imprisoned, 15 years
- Komil Matiev — Imprisoned, 15 years
- Abdukahor Muminjanov — Imprisoned, 17 years
- Zulfat Sabirzyanov — Imprisoned, 15 years
- Rustem Salakhutdinov — Imprisoned, 14 years
- Ilnaz Safiullin — Imprisoned, 11 years
Thematic group: Kazan case of Hizb ut-Tahrir
The case of Azat Gataullin on the facilitation and justification of terrorist activities
Write a letter
Facility: Prison, Krasnoyarsk Krai
Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
662606, ул. Горького д. 114 Тюрьма, Красноярский край, г. Минусинск, ФКУ «Тюрьма ГУФСИН России по Красноярскому краю», Гатауллин Азат Бикмуллович, 1974 г.р.
Details and sources
Full summary
Resident of Kazan. In 2005, he was sentenced to four years and seven months in prison for involvement with Hizb ut-Tahrir on charges of promoting terrorism and participation in the activities of an extremist organisation. Afterwards, the charge of promoting terrorism was removed from the sentence and the term was reduced to one year.
On 14 March 2017, he was detained after a search and subsequently arrested on charges of involvement in a terrorist organisation, once again for alleged involvement in Hizb ut-Tahrir, which has no connection to terrorism.
On 25 December a charge of incitement to hatred was added, and on 8 January 2018 a charge of calling for terrorist activity was added.
On 5 February 2020, he was sentenced to 19 years in a strict regime penal colony.
In 2023, it became known that a new criminal case was opened against Gataullin: public justification of terrorism and incitement to terrorist activity. On 15 May 2024, a verdict was reached, details are unknown.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Persecution episodes
- 2
Other people prosecuted under Article 205.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.