Aslan Makhmaliev
Aslan Makhmaliev, born 1985, Saratov Oblast. Charges: Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Organization of the activities of an extremist organization); “The case of six”. Sentence (August 12, 2020): 1 year 4 months of deprivation of liberty in a general regime colony, 1 year of restricted liberty. Status: at large.
In brief
Saratov Oblast · Saratov · Farmers · Extremism cases
Sentence
1 year 4 months
of deprivation of liberty in a general regime colony, 1 year of restricted liberty
No information about an appeal ruling.
Charges
- Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Organization of the activities of an extremist organization
Full wording of the charges
exchanged extremist literature with other defendants, flew to Jordan, Qatar and Kuwait, where he received training in religious centres, attempted to establish a local Tablighi Jamaat cell and organised "bayan" (meetings for the purpose of preaching)
Latest event
May 27, 2025 — removed from the rosfinmonitoring list
Timeline
· Removed from the Rosfinmonitoring list
· Persecution ends
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 1 year 4 months
· Preventive measure: travel ban (written undertaking)
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
· Persecution begins
The case of six
Criminal case
The case of six
Other defendants in the case
- Mukhambetzhan Akhmetov — At large, 1 year 4 months
- Bakhtiar Baikulov — At large, 1 year 4 months
- Radik Galimjanov — At large, 1 year 4 months
- Aidyngali Mindagaliev — At large, 3 years
Thematic group: Saratov Tablighi Jamaat case
Details and sources
Full summary
Was detained at the end of January 2019, placed in custody on 30 January on charges of organising activities of an extremist organisation. On 24 December, he was released on his own recognisance.
On 5 March 2020, in connection with the actions of the investigation and the court, filed a criminal complaint with the Military Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of Russia and the Prosecutor's Office of the Saratov region, demanding to initiate criminal proceedings under Articles 299 and 301 of the Criminal Code (bringing a knowingly innocent person to criminal responsibility, unlawful detention) due to the fact that the evidence in the case was collected in May-October 2018, but the official publication of information on the recognition of Tablighi Jamaat as an extremist organisation occurred in Rossiyskaya Gazeta only on 13 December of the same year.
On 13 August 2020, he was sentenced to 1 year and 4 months of imprisonment in a general regime colony and 1 year of restriction of freedom. The court considered the term of imprisonment served.
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.