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Rakhmatull Kiroev

Not in RussiaChecked October 18, 2026

Rakhmatull Kiroev, Moscow Oblast. Charges: Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in the activities of an extremist organization); “The Tablighi Jamaat case in Moscow region”. Sentence (February 21, 2019): 2 years 2 months' deprivation of liberty in a general regime colony, 6 months' restriction of liberty. Status: not in Russia.

In brief

Moscow Oblast · Orekhovo-Zuyevo · Extremism cases

Sentence

2 years 2 months

deprivation of liberty in a general regime colony, 6 months' restriction of liberty

Sentence changed February 21, 2019

First instance, December 6, 2018: 2 years 2 months

Charges

Full wording of the charges

According to the investigation, which the court accepted, he was engaged in promoting the ideology of Tablighi Jamaat among Muslims in Moscow and the Moscow region.

Latest event

August 21, 2019 — imprisonment ends

Checked October 18, 2026 · no changes since October 15

Timeline

  1. · Imprisonment ends

  2. · Appeal ruling

    sentence changed · 2 years 2 months

  3. · First-instance verdict

    guilty verdict · 2 years 2 months

  4. · Persecution begins

    The Tablighi Jamaat case in Moscow region

Criminal case

The Tablighi Jamaat case in Moscow region

Other defendants in the case

Thematic group: Tablighi Jamaat case in the Moscow region

Details and sources

Full summary

According to OVD-Info

He was arrested on June 28, 2017. On December 7, 2018, the Orekhovo-Zuyevo City Court of the Moscow Region found Kiroev guilty of participating in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code) and sentenced him to two years and two months in a general regime penal colony with a six-month restriction of freedom. In 2019, after his release from prison, he was stripped of his Russian citizenship and deported from the country.

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