Mansur Movlaev
Mansur Movlaev, Chechnya. Charges: Article 228 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code (Illegal drug trafficking); “Mansur Movlaev's case on drug distribution”. Sentence: 3 years. Status: location unknown.
In brief
Chechnya · Engineers, Athletes · Extremism cases
Sentence
3 years
Imprisonment (general regime)
No information about an appeal ruling.
Charges
- Article 282.3 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code — Financing extremist activities
- Article 228 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code
Full wording of the charges
The reason for the case was a transfer to the cryptocurrency wallet of the Chechen opposition project "1ADAT": according to the investigation, it was made by Movlayev, while the project coordinators claim that the money was transferred by law enforcers.
Latest event
January 1, 2022 — imprisonment ends
FACTUM stories
September 21, 2026
Mansur Movlaev: the man no one can deport
Russia is not asking for him over the leaks he sent to a Chechen opposition channel. It is asking for him for extortion, and that distinction is the whole case. Kazakhstan says a treaty obliges it to comply; its own criminal code says otherwise. What the Chisinau Convention, the Convention against Torture and two UN rulings on diplomatic assurances actually require.
Timeline
· Imprisonment ends
· Persecution ends
Criminal case
Mansur Movlaev's case on drug distribution
Mansur Movlaev's case of financing extremist activities
Details and sources
Full summary
Resident of Chechnya, engineer, master of sports in taekwondo. Criticised the regime of Ramzan Kadyrov. In 2020, he was sentenced to three years in a general regime colony in a drug distribution case, Movlaev linked the prosecution to his anti-establishment statements. Movlayev was released on parole in 2022. In August of the same year, he was kidnapped by Department of Internal Affairs' officers of the Shalinsky district of Chechnya. For some time the activist was held in one of the "illegal prisons", where he claims he was tortured. In 2023, he managed to escape and got to Kyrgyzstan without documents. A case was opened against him for financing extremist activities - according to supporters, it was falsified: the reason for the case was a transfer to the cryptocurrency wallet of the Chechen opposition channel "1ADAT", which, according to the authors of the channel, was made by security forces. In August 2023, Movlayev was detained and taken into custody in Kyrgyzstan on charges of illegal border crossing. In October, a court in Bishkek sentenced the activist to six months in a penal colony with subsequent deportation to Russia. However, according to "1ADAT" administrator Ibragim Yangulbaev, the activist managed to flee the country. In October 2024, Movlayev reported that his brothers Zelimkhan and Khamzat had been kidnapped in Chechnya in September.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Persecution episodes
- 2
Other people prosecuted under Article 228 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.