Rustem Latypov
Rustem Latypov, born 1976, Bashkortostan. Charges: Article 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in the activities of a terrorist organization); Article 278 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Preparing for violent seizure of power or alteration of the constitutional order); Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in the activities of an extremist organization); “The case of the twenty-one”. Sentence (July 29, 2018): eight years' deprivation of liberty in a strict regime colony, a fine of 400,000 roubles, and one year's restriction of… Status: at large. Recognition: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, May 3, 2016; Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion, April 25, 2016.
In brief
Bashkortostan · Ufa · Human rights defenders · Terrorism cases, Extremism cases, Cases against Hizb ut-Tahrir
Sentence
8 years
eight years' deprivation of liberty in a strict regime colony, a fine of 400,000 roubles, and one year's restriction of liberty.nUnder part 2 of article 282.2, impose a fine of 80,000 roubles and release from punishment
Upheld September 20, 2020
Charges
- Article 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Participation in the activities of a terrorist organization
- Article 278 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Preparing for violent seizure of power or alteration of the constitutional order
- Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Participation in the activities of an extremist organization
Full wording of the charges
participated in the activities of an extremist organisation, participated in the activities of a terrorist organisation, prepared for a violent seizure of power
Latest event
February 4, 2023 — imprisonment ends
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, May 3, 2016
- Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, April 25, 2016
Timeline
· Imprisonment ends
· Persecution ends
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 8 years
· Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion
Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Pre-trial Detention Centre №4 (SIZO-4) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Bashkortostan
· Persecution begins
The case of the twenty-one
Criminal case
The case of the twenty-one
Other defendants in the case
- Radik Akhmetov — Imprisoned, 21 years
- Fanis Akhmetshin — At large, 11 years
- Linar Vakhitov — Imprisoned, 22 years
- Rustem Galliamov — Imprisoned, 22 years
- Ilgiz Gimaletdinov — Imprisoned, 14 years
- Azamat Kaiumov — Imprisoned, 20 years
- Alexander Kornev — Imprisoned, 13 years
- Radmir Maksutov — At large, 10 years
- Farid Mustafaev — At large, 11 years
- Khalil Mustafin — Imprisoned, 21 years
- Rinat Nurlygaianov — Imprisoned, 24 years
- Artur Salimov — Imprisoned, 22 years
- Irek Tagirov — Imprisoned, 14 years
- Aramis Fazylov — At large, 5 years
- Danis Faizrakhmanov — Imprisoned, 22 years
- Rafael Fattakhov — Imprisoned, 22 years
- Ruslan Fattakhov — At large, 10 years
- Rustem Khamzin — Imprisoned, 23 years
- Shamil Sharipov — Imprisoned, 14 years
- Ural Iakupov — Imprisoned, 13 years
Thematic group: Second Ufa case of "Hizb ut-Tahrir"
Details and sources
Full summary
Detained on 4 February 2015 as part of the prosecution of members of Hizb ut-Tahrir on suspicion of participation in the activities of the terrorist organisation, arrested, in January 2016 the charge of preparation for violent seizure of power was added; there are reasons to believe that he was subjected to physical and moral pressure in the pre-trial detention facility, including beatings, also went on hunger strike.
He is a group III incapacitated person (polyosteoarthritis against the background of intervertebral disc protrusion, with pain syndrome), needs an urgent operation and does not receive the necessary medical care in the conditions of the pre-trial detention centre; prison doctors refuse to conduct an independent medical examination of his health condition in the presence of a rapidly progressing disease.
On 30 July 2018, sentenced to eight years in a strict regime colony. He was released on 3 February 2023.
In October 2018, he was sentenced for membership in Hizb ut-Tahrir to eight months' imprisonment on charges of organising the activities of a banned organisation.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.