Ruslan Khubaev
Ruslan Khubaev, born 1976, Moscow. Charges: Article 212 part 3, Russian Criminal Code (Incitement to mass riots); Article 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Hooliganism (group, with weapons, or against a government official)); Article 282 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code (Incitement of hatred or enmity); “The Manezhnaya case”, opened on March 25, 2011. Sentence (October 27, 2011): 4 years' imprisonment in a strict regime colony; previously convicted under Article 228 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code. Status: at large. Recognition: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as a political prisoner, March 13, 2015; Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as a political prisoner, October 30, 2014.
In brief
Moscow · Moscow · Politicians · Extremism cases
Sentence
4 years
imprisonment in a strict regime colony
Upheld November 7, 2013
Other verdicts
- March 28, 2007 — 4.5 years in a high-security penal colony
Charges
- Article 228 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code — Illegal drug trafficking
- Article 212 part 3, Russian Criminal Code — Incitement to mass riots
- Article 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Hooliganism (group, with weapons, or against a government official)
- Article 282 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code — Incitement of hatred or enmity
Full wording of the charges
called for mass disorder, incited hatred, committed hooliganism
Latest event
March 13, 2015 — recognised as a political prisoner
Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, March 13, 2015
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial Human Rights Centre, October 30, 2014
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial Human Rights Centre, November 7, 2011
Timeline
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners
· Imprisonment ends
· Persecution ends
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Cassation ruling
upheld
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 4 years
· Criminal case opened
The Manezhnaya case
· Persecution ends
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 4 years 6 months
· Persecution begins
Khubaev case
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Criminal case
The Manezhnaya case
Other defendants in the case
- Igor Berezyuk — At large, 5 years 3 months
- Kirill Unchuk — Deceased, 3 years
Thematic group: Manezhnaya case
Khubaev case
Details and sources
Full summary
Ruslan Khubaev is the former head of the Murmansk branch of the banned National Bolshevik Party and later the Other Russia. In 2006, he was accused of insulting a representative of the authorities because of a rally against conscription and Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov, as well as because of illegal possession and sale of drugs, while it was an FSB officer who was witnessing against him (before that, Khubaev had bullets planted in his apartment). The insult charge was later dropped. He was sentenced to 4.5 years in a strict regime colony. According to his fellow party members and human rights activists, the case was falsified. In October 2010, he was released. On 22 December 2010, his apartment was searched and a large box of literature and money were seized (on the same day, the homes of other activists of the Other Russia and other opposition movements were searched in Murmansk).
On 26 March 2011, Khubaev was arrested in connection with the clashes over the Manezh case. On 28 October 2011, he was sentenced to four years' imprisonment in a strict regime colony. The court of second instance reduced the sentence by two months. Khubaev was released on 23 January 2015.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Persecution episodes
- 2
Other people prosecuted under Article 212 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.