Jalaudi Geriev
- Criminal Code
- Article 228 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code
- Verdict
- Imprisonment (general regime)
- Sentence
- 3 years
- Date of verdict
- 2016-09-04
- Region
- Chechnya
- City
- Kurchaloy
Recognition by human rights organisations
- Recognised as a political prisonerby Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, 19 October 2016
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Case summary
On 16 April 2016, Geriev was detained, and a package allegedly containing marijuana according to forensic analysis, was confiscated from him. Geriev claimed that on that day, he had planned to fly to the Moscow region but was forcibly removed from a bus en route to Grozny by unidentified individuals. He reported being taken to a forest, where he was questioned about his journalistic activities, tortured, and threatened with death before being coerced into signing a confession for possessing marijuana.
On 5 September 2016, Gereyev was sentenced to three years in a general-regime penal colony.
In April 2019, he was released.
Others charged under Article 228 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code
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