Alisher Husenov
Alisher Husenov, born 1991, 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): 15 years 6 months' imprisonment in a strict regime penal colony. Status: imprisoned; place of detention: Penal colony No. 16, Murmansk Oblast. Recognition: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, June 16, 2018; Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, April 18, 2018.
In brief
Moscow · Moscow · Unemployed · Terrorism cases, Cases against Hizb ut-Tahrir
Sentence
15 years 6 months
imprisonment in a strict regime penal colony
Upheld October 11, 2017
Charges
- Article 205.5 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Organizing the activities of a terrorist organization
Full wording of the charges
He was accused of organizing the activities of a terrorist organization, actively recruiting others, promoting the ideas of radical Islam, and advocating for the establishment of an Islamic caliphate on the territory of the Russian Federation.
Latest event
June 16, 2018 — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion
Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, June 16, 2018
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, April 18, 2018
Timeline
· 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
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 15 years 6 months
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· 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
- Suhrob Ironov — Imprisoned, 17 years
- Mirzobakhovaddin Kurbonov — Imprisoned, 16 years
- Akmalchon Numonchonov — Imprisoned, 15 years
- Naimjon Khodjaev — Imprisoned, 18 years
Thematic group: Second Moscow case of "Hizb ut-Tahrir"
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Facility: Penal colony No. 16, Murmansk Oblast
Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
184355, Мурманская обл., Кольский район, пос. Мурмаши, ул. Зеленая, д. 14а, ФКУ «ИК № 16 УФСИН России по Мурманской области», Хусенов Алишер Хасанович, 1991 г.р.
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Full summary
A citizen of Tajikistan who was living in Moscow. Arrested in late 2015 on charges of involvement in the activities of a terrorist organization due to his alleged involvement with the Islamist party "Hizb ut-Tahrir". On June 15, 2017, he was sentenced to 15 and a half years in a strict regime penal colony.
The Hizb ut-Tahrir party was designated a terrorist organization and banned in the Russian Federation in 2003. Human rights activists considered this ban to be unfounded, as there was no evidence that members of this party were involved in terrorist activities. Twenty years later, the party actively expressed support for terrorist activities against Israel. Nonetheless, in Russia, individuals are prosecuted not for public statements — let alone actual terrorist acts — but solely based on alleged membership in the organization, which typically consists of meetings in private homes and the study of religious literature.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Tajikistan
Other people prosecuted under Article 205.5 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.