Marcel Gimaliev
Marcel Gimaliev, born 1981, Tatarstan. Charges: Article 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in the activities of a terrorist organization); “Marsel Gimaliev`s case”. Sentence (May 18, 2022): 17 years' imprisonment in a strict regime penal colony. Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since February 21, 2020; place of detention: Penal colony No. 9, Chuvashia. Recognition: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, January 18, 2021; Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, December 18, 2020.
In brief
Tatarstan · Kazan · Lawyers · Terrorism cases, Cases against Hizb ut-Tahrir
Sentence
17 years
imprisonment in a strict regime penal colony
Upheld June 14, 2023
Charges
- Article 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Participation in the activities of a terrorist organization
Full wording of the charges
participated in the activities of the cell
Latest event
June 14, 2023 — cassation
The court upheld the verdict.
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, January 18, 2021
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, December 18, 2020
Timeline
· Cassation ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 17 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
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Pre-trial Detention Centre №1 (SIZO-1) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russian Federation for the Republic of Tatarstan
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Preventive measure: house arrest
· Persecution begins
Marsel Gimaliev`s case
Criminal case
Marsel Gimaliev`s case
Thematic group: Kazan case of Hizb ut-Tahrir
Write a letter
Facility: Penal colony No. 9, Chuvashia
Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
429900,Чувашская Республика, г. Цивильск, ул. Северная, д. 13, ФКУ «ИК № 9 УФСИН России по Чувашии», Гималиев Марсель Минехалимович, 1981 г.р.
Details and sources
Full summary
On 14 March 2017, he tried to run away from the officers who came to detain him, fell from the fifth floor, was taken to hospital with a fractured spine. On 4 April he was placed under house arrest. On 31 October it became known that Gimaliev escaped from house arrest, he was placed on the federal and international wanted list. In February 2020, it became known that Gimaliev was detained and taken into custody.
On 18 May 2022, he was sentenced to 17 years in a strict regime penal colony.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
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