Tazhib Mahmudov
Tazhib Mahmudov, born 1982, Moscow. Charges: Article 205 item a (part unknown) applied with Article 30 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code (Preparation or attempt to commit a group terrorist attack); Article 222 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Illicit trafficking in firearms or ammunition); Article 222 part 3, Russian Criminal Code (Illicit trafficking in firearms or ammunition (by a group, using official positions or the Internet)); “The case of the preparation of a terrorist attack in the "Kirgizia" cinema theatre”. Sentence (April 21, 2016): Thirteen years' imprisonment in a strict regime penal colony. Status: imprisoned; place of detention: Penal colony No. 9, Orenburg Oblast. Recognition: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, April 30, 2017; Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, April 16, 2017.
In brief
Moscow · Moscow · Drivers · Terrorism cases
Sentence
13 years
Thirteen years' imprisonment in a strict regime penal colony
Upheld May 15, 2017
Charges
- Article 205 item a (part unknown) applied with Article 30 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code — Preparation or attempt to commit a group terrorist attack
- Article 222 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Illicit trafficking in firearms or ammunition
- Article 222 part 3, Russian Criminal Code — Illicit trafficking in firearms or ammunition (by a group, using official positions or the Internet)
- Article 223 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code — Manufacturing is understood as the creation of items specified by regulations without obtaining a license in the prescribed manner, where the items acquire the properties of firearms, ammunition, explosives, or explosive devices
Full wording of the charges
organised a criminal group to prepare a terrorist attack, for which purpose he found a flat and illegally stored ammunition
Latest event
June 13, 2017 — added to the rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, April 30, 2017
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, April 16, 2017
Timeline
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· 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
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 13 years
· Persecution begins
The case of the preparation of a terrorist attack in the "Kirgizia" cinema theatre
Criminal case
The case of the preparation of a terrorist attack in the "Kirgizia" cinema theatre
Other defendants in the case
- Tagir Akhtakhanov — At large, 11 years
- Nurmagomed Balakadashev — At large, 11 years
- Inyal Balakadashev — At large, 11 years
- Artur Maslakov — Location unknown, 12 years
- Matlyuba Nasimova — At large, 11 years
- Islam Ramazanov — At large, 11 years
- Ersmak Saraliyev — At large, 11 years
- Aslan Suleymanov — At large, 11 years
- Artur Tekilov — At large, 11 years
- Anzor Tekilov — At large, 11 years
- Tekilov Imran — Location unknown, 12 years
- Sergey Cheprasov — At large, 11 years
- Adam Shavkhalov — At large, 11 years
- Khoso Esmurzaev — At large, 11 years
Write a letter
Facility: Penal colony No. 9, Orenburg Oblast
Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
461551, Оренбургская область, пос. Меловой завод, ул. Заводская, 5, ФКУ «ИК № 9 УФСИН России по Оренбургской области», Махмудов Тажиб Таймирович, 1982 г.р.
Details and sources
Full summary
Moscow resident. In the night leading to November 27, 2013, a search was conducted in Makhmudov's apartment without witnesses, under a warrant related to an attempted theft of two sweaters from a store (the case was closed in 2016 due to the statute of limitations). During the search, cartridges were found in the father-in-law's nightstand, but it was Makhmudov who was detained, while the father-in-law was not even questioned. The investigation declared Makhmudov the creator and leader of the terrorist cell that planned an attack on the "Kirgizia" cinema in Moscow. Human rights activists believe that there is no convincing evidence of his involvement in the crime; in their opinion, the prosecution was part of a campaign to pressure Muslims.
22 April 2016 sentenced to 13 years in a strict regime penal colony.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 205 item a (part unknown) applied with Article 30 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.