Khamid Igamberdyev
- Criminal Code
- Article 205.5 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
- Case category
- Terrorism casesCases against Hizb ut-Tahrir
- Verdict
- Imprisonment (strict regime)
- Sentence
- 16 years
- Date of verdict
- 2019-02-14
- Region
- Moscow
- City
- Moscow
- Facility
- ФКУ «ИК № 5 УФСИН России по Орловской области»
- Address for letters
- 303900, Орловская обл., п. Нарышкино, ул. Заводская, д.62, ФКУ «ИК № 5 УФСИН России по Орловской области», Игамбердыев Хамид Алиджонович, 1985 г.р.
Recognition by human rights organisations
- Recognised as a political prisonerby Memorial Human Rights Centre, 31 October 2019
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Case summary
In December 2016, taken into custody along with 11 other people in connection with alleged involvement in the Islamist party Hizb ut-Tahrir, unrelated to terrorism. On February 15, 2019, sentenced to 16 years in a strict regime colony.
In 2020, a case of public justification of terrorism was brought against Igamberdyev: according to the investigation, in 2017, while in the Moscow pre-trial detention center Butyrka, while talking to his cellmates, he allegedly gave a speech about the justification of activities of terrorists. On September 28, 2021, he was sentenced to three years. Taking into account the previous sentence, his prison term is 17 and a half years in a strict regime colony.
Others charged under Article 205.5 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
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