Felix Mahammadiev
Felix Mahammadiev, born 1984, Saratov Oblast. Charges: Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Organization of the activities of an extremist organization); “The case of Jehovah's Witnesses in the Saratov region”. Sentence (September 19, 2019): three years of imprisonment in a general regime colony, one year of restriction of freedom, a ban on holding leadership… Status: not in Russia. Recognition: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, September 15, 2018; Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, July 28, 2018.
In brief
Saratov Oblast · Saratov · Service workers · Extremism cases, Cases against Jehovah's Witnesses
Sentence
3 years
three years of imprisonment in a general regime colony, one year of restriction of freedom, a ban on holding leadership positions in public organizations for a period of five years
Upheld September 7, 2022
Charges
- Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Organization of the activities of an extremist organization
Full wording of the charges
Participated in organising the activities of an extremist organisation
Latest event
September 7, 2022 — cassation
The court upheld the verdict.
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, September 15, 2018
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, July 28, 2018
Timeline
· Cassation ruling
upheld
· Persecution ends
· 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 Saratov Oblast
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 3 years
· Preventive measure: ban on certain activities
· Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion
Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners
· Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Pre-trial Detention Centre №1 (SIZO-1) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russian Federation for Saratov Oblast
· Persecution begins
The case of Jehovah's Witnesses in the Saratov region
· Preventive measure: placement in a temporary detention facility
Criminal case
The case of Jehovah's Witnesses in the Saratov region
Other defendants in the case
- Bazhenov Konstantin Viktorovich — Not in Russia, 3 years 6 months
- Alexey Budenchuk — At large, 3 years 6 months
- Gennady German — At large, 2 years
- Roman Gridasov — At large, 2 years
- Alexey Miretsky — At large, 2 years
Thematic group: The case of Jehovah's Witnesses in the Saratov region
Details and sources
Full 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.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.