Islambek Kamchybekov
- Criminal Code
- Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
- Case category
- Extremism cases
- Verdict
- Ban on activity, Imprisonment (general regime)
- Sentence
- 6 years 6 months
- Date of verdict
- 2018-09-16
- Region
- Moscow
- City
- Moscow
Recognition by human rights organisations
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religionby Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, 25 December 2018
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Case 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.
Others charged under Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
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