Azamjon Makhmudov
Azamjon Makhmudov, born 1994, Saint Petersburg. Charges: Article 205 part 3, Russian Criminal Code (Terrorist attack (involving the use of hazardous substances or causing the death of a person)); Article 205 part 3 item b applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Preparation for committing a terrorist attack resulting in the negligent death of a person); Article 205 part 3 item b applied with Article 30 part 3, Russian Criminal Code (Attempt to commit a terrorist attack resulting in the death of a person); “The case of April 3 terrorist attack in the St. Petersburg metro in 2017”. Sentence (December 15, 2022): Nineteen years and eleven months of imprisonment in a strict regime colony, a fine of 500,000 rubles. Status: imprisoned; place of detention: Penal colony No. 7, Zabaykalsky Krai. Recognition: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as a political prisoner, February 25, 2021; Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, January 25, 2021.
In brief
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Sentence
19 years 11 months
Nineteen years and eleven months of imprisonment in a strict regime colony, a fine of 500,000 rubles
First instance, December 9, 2019: 20 years
Charges
- Article 205 part 3, Russian Criminal Code — Terrorist attack (involving the use of hazardous substances or causing the death of a person)
- Article 205 part 3 item b applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Preparation for committing a terrorist attack resulting in the negligent death of a person
- Article 205 part 3 item b applied with Article 30 part 3, Russian Criminal Code — Attempt to commit a terrorist attack resulting in the death of a person
- Article 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Participation in a terrorist community
- Article 222.1 part 3, Russian Criminal Code — Illegal acquisition, transfer, storage, transportation, shipment, or carrying of explosives or explosive devices committed by an organized group of people
- Article 223.1 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code — Illegal manufacture of explosives
Full wording of the charges
Azamjon joined a terrorist community, which involved surveying the area around the house where they lived for suitable locations for a terrorist attack, looking for escape routes in case of detection by law enforcement agencies, visiting metro stations and looking for points where they could evade searches, studying the locations of suspected terrorist attacks; passing the information gathered to Akbarjon Jalilov through Mukhamadyusup Ermatov; participating in the finalisation of components of an explosive device.
Latest event
December 15, 2022 — cassation
The court upheld the verdict.
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, February 25, 2021
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, January 25, 2021
Timeline
· Cassation ruling
upheld
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners
· Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 20 years
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Persecution begins
The case of April 3 terrorist attack in the St. Petersburg metro in 2017
Criminal case
The case of April 3 terrorist attack in the St. Petersburg metro in 2017
Other defendants in the case
- Shokhista Karimova — Imprisoned, 19 years 11 months
- Mahamadyusuf Mirzaalimov — Imprisoned, 19 years 11 months
- Dilmurod Muidinov — Imprisoned, 19 years 11 months
- Sodik Ortikov — Imprisoned, 21 years 11 months
- Sayfilla Hakimov — Imprisoned, 18 years 11 months
- Bakhrom Ergashev — Imprisoned, 18 years 11 months
- Ibrahimjon Ermatov — Imprisoned, 26 years 10 months
- Mukhamadyusup Ermatov — Imprisoned, 27 years 10 months
Write a letter
Facility: Penal colony No. 7, Zabaykalsky Krai
Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
674500, ул. Дзержинского д. 13 А, Забайкальский край, п. Оловянная, ФКУ «ИК № 7 УФСИН России по Забайкальскому краю», Махмудов Азамжон Асадович, 1994 г.р.
Details and sources
Full summary
Azamjon was detained on 6 April 2017.One of the detainees, who was charged in the same case, said that he saw Makhmudov beaten. Azamjon was taken into custody on charges of involvement in the terrorist attack in the St. Petersburg metro on 3 April 2017, as human rights activists believe, without good reason. At first Azamjon was kept in a St. Petersburg detention center, then he was transferred to Moscow, and in April 2019 Azamjon, like the other defendants, was taken to St. Petersburg.
On 10 December 2019, he was sentenced to 20 years in a strict regime colony. On 6 August 2021, the Court of Appeal reduced the term by a month.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Uzbekistan
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