Azat Lukmanov
Azat Lukmanov, born 1975, Bashkortostan. Charges: Article 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in the activities of a terrorist organization); Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in the activities of an extremist organization); “Azat Lukmanov's case”. Sentence (December 20, 2021): 11 years' imprisonment in a strict regime penal colony. Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since November 20, 2019; place of detention: Penal colony No. 3, Ryazan Oblast. Recognition: Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, March 9, 2023.
In brief
Bashkortostan · Ufa · Manual workers · Terrorism cases, Extremism cases, Cases against Hizb ut-Tahrir
Sentence
11 years
imprisonment in a strict regime penal colony
Upheld May 29, 2022
Charges
- Article 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Participation in the activities of a terrorist organization
- 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 a terrorist organisation
Latest event
March 9, 2023 — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners, March 9, 2023
Timeline
· Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 11 years
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Pre-trial Detention Centre №1 (SIZO-1) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russian Federation for the Republic of Bashkortostan
· Persecution begins
Azat Lukmanov's case
Criminal case
Azat Lukmanov's case
Write a letter
Facility: Penal colony No. 3, Ryazan Oblast
Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
391846, Рязанская обл., Скопин г., Октябрьский микрорайон, ул. Заводская, д. 1, ФКУ «ИК № 3 УФСИН России по Рязанской области», Лукманов Азат Разифович, 1975 г.р.
Details and sources
Full summary
Azat Lukmanov was detained on November 19, 2019 in Moscow. Federal Security Service officers searched his workplace, and several other people were also detained. Lukmanov was taken to Ufa, where the next day the court put him on remand on charges of engagement in a terrorist organization. On December 21, 2021, he was sentenced to 11 years in a strict regime penal colony.
On October 16, 2008, Lukmanov was sentenced to 8 months in prison on charges of organizing activities of an extremist organization on grounds of his alleged membership in Hizb ut-Tahrir; on September 22, 2010, he was sentenced to two years in a penal colony under the same article.
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.