Danil Kunakbayev
- Criminal Code
- Article 205.5 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code
- Case category
- Terrorism casesCases against Hizb ut-Tahrir
- Verdict
- Imprisonment (general regime)
- Sentence
- 8 years
- Date of verdict
- 2016-08-02
- Region
- Chelyabinsk Oblast
- City
- Chelyabinsk
Recognition by human rights organisations
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religionby Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, 7 February 2019
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Case summary
He was a witness in the case of five alleged members of Hizb ut-Tahrir (Salavat Khabirov, Alfred Shaimov, whose group, according to the investigation, Kunakbayev belonged to, and others), which was being considered in Chelyabinsk; he was prosecuted on charges of participation in the activities of a terrorist organisation; on August 3, 2016, he was sentenced to eight years in a general regime penal colony. He was released in September 2023.
Others charged under Article 205.5 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code
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