Felix Mahammadiev
- Criminal Code
- Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
- Case category
- Extremism casesCases against Jehovah's Witnesses
- Verdict
- Ban on activity, Imprisonment (general regime), Restriction of liberty
- Sentence
- 3 years
- Date of verdict
- 2019-09-19
- Region
- Saratov Oblast
- City
- Saratov
Recognition by human rights organisations
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religionby Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, 15 September 2018
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Case summary
On June 12, 2018, he was detained after a search; on June 14, he was arrested on charges of organizing the activities of an extremist organization. On May 20, 2019, he was released and a preventive measure was chosen in the form of a ban on certain actions.
On September 20, he was sentenced to three years in a general regime colony.
On February 6, 2020, he was beaten in a colony, resulting in a broken rib and damaged lung and kidney. The colony staff took away the prescribed diet from Mahammadiev.
On May 8, it became known that Mahammadiev was deprived of the right to obtain Russian citizenship.
On December 31, he was released from the colony and immediately placed in the Temporary Detention Center for Foreign Citizens. On January 21, 2021, he was deported to his homeland in Uzbekistan.
Others charged under Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
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