Bagir Kazikhanov
- Criminal Code
- Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
- Case category
- Extremism cases
- Verdict
- Imprisonment (general regime)
- Sentence
- 3 years 6 months
- Date of verdict
- 2015-02-24
- Region
- Ulyanovsk Oblast
- City
- Ulyanovsk
Recognition by human rights organisations
- Recognised as a political prisonerby Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, 29 November 2015
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Case summary
On 9 April 2014, he was detained in Moscow. From 10 April to 24 October, Kazikhanov was held in a pre-trial detention centre, and was then placed under house arrest. On 10 November, he was charged with organising the activities of a cell of the banned organisation "Nurdzhular" (which in fact does not exist). On 25 February 2015, he was sentenced to three and a half years' imprisonment in a general regime colony. On 13 May, the court of second instance upheld the sentence, and on 31 July 2015 a request to refer the cassation appeal for substantive consideration was refused. He was released in October 2017.
Others charged under Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
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