Kamil Kasimov
Kamil Kasimov, born 2001, Omsk Oblast. Charges: Article 338, Russian Criminal Code (Desertion); “Kamil Kasimov’s case of desertion”. Sentence (August 13, 2024): 6 years' imprisonment in a general regime penal colony. Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since August 29, 2024; place of detention: Pre-trial detention centre No. 1, Omsk Oblast. Recognition: Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners — recognised as a political prisoner, December 18, 2025.
In brief
Omsk Oblast · Omsk · Military personnel
Sentence
6 years
imprisonment in a general regime penal colony
No information about an appeal ruling.
Charges
- Article 338, Russian Criminal Code — Desertion.
Latest event
December 18, 2025 — recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners, December 18, 2025
Timeline
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 6 years
· Persecution begins
Kamil Kasimov’s case of desertion
Criminal case
Kamil Kasimov’s case of desertion
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Facility: Pre-trial detention centre No. 1, Omsk Oblast
Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
644007, Омская область, г. Омск, ул. Орджоникидзе, 86, ФКУ СИЗО-1 УФСИН России по Омской области, Касимов Камиль Маратович, 2001 г.р.
Details and sources
Full summary
He lived in Tyumen and served as a contract soldier in the war. In May 2023, he took leave and informed his mother that he would not return to the front. Kasimov left for Kazakhstan. On 23 April 2024, he was detained in Astana at the factory where he worked. He was then taken to the Kazakh town of Priozersk, home to a Russian military unit and the 496th Military Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee. From there, he was transferred to Omsk.
The Kazakh Interior Ministry later told BES.Media that on 13 June, the court in Priozersk decided to deport Kasimov from the country; at the hearing, Kasimov himself requested deportation. On 13 August 2024, he was sentenced to six years in a strict-regime penal colony on charges of desertion, with the Priozersk-based court issuing the sentence while he was in Omsk.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
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