Mikail Markhiev
Mikail Markhiev, born 2000, Moscow. Charges: Article 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Use of non-dangerous violence against a government official); “The case of Said-Mukhamad Dzhumaev on the use of violence against police officers at the 23 January rally in Moscow”. Sentence (August 18, 2021): 5 years' imprisonment in a general regime colony. Status: at large. Recognition: Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as a political prisoner, October 31, 2021.
In brief
Moscow · Moscow · Students · Cases related to mass actions
Sentence
5 years
imprisonment in a general regime colony
Upheld September 15, 2022
Charges
- Article 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Use of non-dangerous violence against a government official
Full wording of the charges
punched and kicked police officers
Latest event
July 17, 2025 — imprisonment ends
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial Human Rights Centre, October 31, 2021
Timeline
· Imprisonment ends
· Persecution ends
· Cassation ruling
upheld
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 5 years
· Persecution begins
The case of Said-Mukhamad Dzhumaev on the use of violence against police officers at the 23 January rally in Moscow
Criminal case
The case of Said-Mukhamad Dzhumaev on the use of violence against police officers at the 23 January rally in Moscow
- Case number
- 01-0246/2021
Thematic group: Palace case
Details and sources
Full summary
Third-year student of the Faculty of Foreign Languages at Moscow State University. Participated in a rally on 23 January 2021 in support of Navalny. A case was opened against him on charges of using violence against a representative of the government authorities.
According to the version given by Dzhumaev's relatives to Chechen Duma deputy Adam Delimkhanov, Said-Mukhamad acted in a state of affect: he received a blow to the head and then started fighting with riot police. On 2 February, Ramzan Kadyrov harshly criticised Dzhumaev, claiming that he had "harmed the people of Chechnya and acted unmanly by hiding from the security forces after the action". During a meeting with Chechen parliamentary speaker Magomed Daudov, Dzhumaev's uncles and cousins on his father's side said that Dzhumaev's parents had been divorced for a long time, that the boy was born and raised in Moscow, and that they had seen each other only a few times. Said-Mukhamad was detained a few days after the action, in Pskov, and from there was taken to Moscow.
On 28 January 2021, Dzhumaev was taken into custody on charges of using violence against an official at a rally in support of Alexei Navalny on 23 January. On 19 August, he was sentenced to five years in a general regime colony.
On 17 July 2025, Dzhumaev was released from prison.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
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