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Farid Kryev

ImprisonedChecked October 18, 2026

Farid Kryev, born 1965, Tatarstan. Charges: Article 205.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Assisting to or financing terrorist activities through an official position); Article 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in the activities of a terrorist organization); “The case of "Hizb ut-Tahrir" in Kazan”. Sentence (February 4, 2020): 15 years' imprisonment in a strict-regime penal colony. Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since March 15, 2017; place of detention: Penal colony No. 26, Samara Oblast. Recognition: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, July 17, 2019; Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, July 8, 2019.

In brief

Tatarstan · Kazan · Unemployed · Terrorism cases, Cases against Hizb ut-Tahrir

Sentence

15 years

imprisonment in a strict-regime penal colony

Verdict February 4, 2020

Upheld May 30, 2021

Charges

Full wording of the charges

He participated in the activities of the cell, publicly called for terrorist activities by republishing a video with the text "We declare..." from the Facebook community "Syria - Revolution of the Blessed al-Sham"

Latest event

May 30, 2021 — appeal

The court upheld the verdict.

Checked October 18, 2026 · no changes since October 15

Recognition by rights defenders

Timeline

  1. · Appeal ruling

    upheld

  2. · First-instance verdict

    guilty verdict · 15 years

  3. · Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion

    Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners

  4. · Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion

    Memorial Human Rights Centre

  5. · Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”

  6. · Preventive measure: pre-trial detention

    Pre-trial Detention Centre №2 (SIZO-2) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Tatarstan

Criminal case

The case of "Hizb ut-Tahrir" in Kazan

Other defendants in the case

Thematic group: Kazan case of Hizb ut-Tahrir

Write a letter

Facility: Penal colony No. 26, Samara Oblast

Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)

443527, с. Спиридоновка, ул. Советская, уч. 1 Д, Самарская обл., Волжский район, ФКУ «ИК № 26 УФСИН России по Самарской области», Крыев Фарид Шавкатович, 1965 г.р.

Address checked October 18, 2026

Details and sources

Full summary

According to OVD-Info

Resident of Kazan. On 14 March 2017, he was detained after a search and then arrested on charges of involvement in a terrorist organisation in connection with alleged involvement in the Islamist party Hizb ut-Tahrir, which is not related to terrorism.

On 8 January 2018, a charge of calling for terrorist activity was added.

On 5 February 2020, he was sentenced to 15 years in a strict regime colony.

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Sources (2)

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