October 20, 2026, 3:01 PMRSSRU

Naimjon Khodjaev

ImprisonedChecked October 18, 2026

Naimjon Khodjaev, born 1979, Moscow. Charges: Article 205.5 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Organizing the activities of a terrorist organization); “The second Moscow case of Hizb ut-Tahrir”. Sentence (June 14, 2017): Eighteen years' imprisonment in a strict-regime penal colony. Status: imprisoned. Recognition: Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, April 18, 2018; Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, April 16, 2018.

In brief

Moscow · Moscow · Unemployed · Terrorism cases, Cases against Hizb ut-Tahrir

Sentence

18 years

Eighteen years' imprisonment in a strict-regime penal colony

Verdict June 14, 2017

Upheld October 11, 2017

Charges

Full wording of the charges

He participated in organizing the activities of a terrorist organization, engaged in active recruitment, and promoted the ideas of radical Islam and the establishment of an Islamic caliphate on the territory of the Russian Federation.

Latest event

April 18, 2018 — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion

Memorial Human Rights Centre

Checked October 18, 2026 · no changes since October 15

Recognition by rights defenders

Timeline

  1. · Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion

    Memorial Human Rights Centre

  2. · Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion

    Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners

  3. · Appeal ruling

    upheld

  4. · First-instance verdict

    guilty verdict · 18 years

  5. · Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”

  6. · Persecution begins

    The second Moscow case of Hizb ut-Tahrir

Criminal case

The second Moscow case of Hizb ut-Tahrir

Other defendants in the case

Thematic group: Second Moscow case of "Hizb ut-Tahrir"

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Details and sources

Full summary

According to OVD-Info

He was arrested in late 2015 on charges of involvement in the activities of a terrorist organisation. On 15 June 2017, he was sentenced to 18 years in a strict-regime penal colony

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