Rakhmiddin Kamolov
Rakhmiddin Kamolov, born 1989, Moscow. Charges: Article 205.5 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Organizing the activities of a terrorist organization); “Rakhmiddin Kamolov's case”. Sentence (December 17, 2017): 16 years' imprisonment in a strict-regime penal colony. Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since June 5, 2018; place of detention: Prison, Krasnoyarsk Krai. Recognition: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, June 15, 2020; Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, June 5, 2020.
In brief
Moscow · Moscow · Terrorism cases, Cases against Hizb ut-Tahrir
Sentence
16 years
imprisonment in a strict-regime penal colony
Upheld March 21, 2018
Charges
- Article 205.5 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Organizing the activities of a terrorist organization
Full wording of the charges
Participated in organising the activities of the Hizb ut-Tahrir terrorist organisation
Latest event
June 15, 2020 — 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 15, 2020
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, June 5, 2020
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 · 16 years
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Persecution begins
Rakhmiddin Kamolov's case
Criminal case
Rakhmiddin Kamolov's case
Thematic group: The fourth Moscow case of "Hizb ut-Tahrir"
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Facility: Prison, Krasnoyarsk Krai
Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
662606, ул. Горького д. 114 Тюрьма, Красноярский край, г. Минусинск, ФКУ «Тюрьма ГУФСИН России по Красноярскому краю», Камолов Рахмиддин Иброхимович, 1989 г.р.
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Full summary
Resident of Moscow, activist of the Society of Political Emigrants of Central Asia and Yerdam, a human rights organization assisting refugees from Central Asia. Detained on March 21, 2017, on suspicion of organizing activities of a terrorist organization. On December 18, sentenced to 16 years in a strict regime colony.
In June 2018, after arroving at Penal Colony 6 in the Tver region, Kamolov was repeatedly placed in solitary confinement, as well as in cell-type premises and single cell-type rooms. In mid-2019, he was transferred to Penal Colony 7 where he was similarly placed a single cell-type room. Later he was sent back to Penal Colony 6 and promptly sent to a treatment and correctional facility. In February 2020, Kamolov returned to Penal Colony 6 and immediately sent to solitary confinement and then to cell-type premises.
On December 12, 2023, the court decided to transfer Kamolov to prison.
On October 15, 2024, Kamolov's only son, eight-year-old Khalid, died after being hit by a car.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Uzbekistan
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