Islambek Kamchybekov
Islambek Kamchybekov, born 1987, Moscow. Charges: Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Organization of the activities of an extremist organization); “The Tablighi Jamaat case in Moscow”. Sentence (September 16, 2018): Six years six months' deprivation of liberty in a general regime penal colony. Status: location unknown. Recognition: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, December 25, 2018; Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, December 11, 2018.
In brief
Moscow · Moscow · Extremism cases
Sentence
6 years 6 months
Six years six months' deprivation of liberty in a general regime penal colony
Upheld April 28, 2019
Charges
- Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Organization of the activities of an extremist organization
Full wording of the charges
Participated in organising the activities of an extremist organisation
Latest event
April 22, 2022 — imprisonment ends
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, December 25, 2018
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, December 11, 2018
Timeline
· Imprisonment ends
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· 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
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 6 years 6 months
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
· Persecution begins
The Tablighi Jamaat case in Moscow
Criminal case
The Tablighi Jamaat case in Moscow
Other defendants in the case
- Bekzod Bakirov — Location unknown, 4 years
- Akhmet Dzhumaev — Not in Russia, 4 years
- Shakir Kozhamkulov — Not in Russia, 6 years 6 months
- Gazybek Kubatov — Not in Russia, 4 years
- Zufar Mustafin — Location unknown, 4 years
- Kanybek Suiunduk uulu — Not in Russia, 6 years 6 months
- Airat Usmanov — Location unknown, 4 years
Thematic group: Moscow case of Tablighi Jamaat
Details and sources
Full summary
Detained on December 22, 2016 together with six other people on suspicion of involvement in Tablighi Jamaat, arrested. At the trial, he claimed that after detention the Federal Security Service (FSB) officers were applying "physical and psychological pressure" to him, forcing him to confess. On September 17, 2018, he was sentenced to six and a half years in a general regime penal colony. He was released in April 2022.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Kyrgyzstan
Other people prosecuted under Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.