Mahamadyusuf Mirzaalimov
Mahamadyusuf Mirzaalimov, born 1995, 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' imprisonment in a strict regime colony, a fine of 500,000 roubles. Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since April 7, 2017; place of detention: Penal colony No. 4, Tomsk Oblast. Recognition: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as a political prisoner, February 25, 2021; Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as a political prisoner, January 25, 2021.
In brief
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Sentence
19 years 11 months
Nineteen years and eleven months' imprisonment in a strict regime colony, a fine of 500,000 roubles
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
Entered 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 a political prisoner — Memorial Human Rights Centre, January 25, 2021
Timeline
· Cassation ruling
upheld
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 20 years
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
· 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
- Azamjon Makhmudov — 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
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Facility: Penal colony No. 4, Tomsk Oblast
Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
634034, Томская область, г. Томск, ул.Нахимова, 3/1, ФКУ «ИК № 4 УФСИН по Томской области», Мирзаалимов Махамадюсуф Дилшадович, 1995 г.р.
Details and sources
Full summary
Resident of St. Petersburg. Detained on 6 April 2017. Later he said that during the search he was beaten, shown a bat and a dagger, and demanded to incriminate the other defendants in the case, Mukhamadyusup and Ibragimzhon Ermatov. He 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 grounds. He was first held in a pre-trial detention centre in St. Petersburg, then transferred to Moscow, and in April 2019 he, 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 sentence by a month.
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