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Dilmurod Muidinov

ImprisonedChecked October 18, 2026

Dilmurod Muidinov, born 1997, 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' deprivation of liberty in a strict regime colony, a fine of 500,000 roubles. Status: imprisoned; place of detention: Penal colony No. 9, Omsk Oblast. 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' deprivation of liberty in a strict regime colony, a fine of 500,000 roubles

Sentence changed December 15, 2022

First instance, December 9, 2019: 20 years

Charges

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.

Checked October 18, 2026 · no changes since October 15

Recognition by rights defenders

Timeline

  1. · Cassation ruling

    upheld

  2. · Recognised as a political prisoner

    Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners

  3. · Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion

    Memorial Human Rights Centre

  4. · First-instance verdict

    guilty verdict · 20 years

  5. · Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”

  6. · 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

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Facility: Penal colony No. 9, Omsk Oblast

Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)

644027, г.Омск, ул.27-я Линия, д.47 «А», ФКУ «ИК № 9 УФСИН России по Омской области», Муидинов Дилмурод Фуркатович, 1997 г.р.

Address checked October 18, 2026

Details and sources

Full summary

According to OVD-Info

Resident of St. Petersburg. Detained on 6 April 2017 after a search during which explosives were found. According to Muidinov, he was tortured during interrogation, demanded to incriminate the other defendants in the case, Ibragimzhon and Mukhamadyusup Ermatov, and to admit that he was acquainted with Akbarzhon Dzhalilov, who died in the terrorist attack in the St. Petersburg metro on 3 April 2017. 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 placed with Russian nationalists in St Petersburg's pre-trial detention centre No 4. Muidinov believes that this was done on the initiative of an officer who demanded that he pleaded guilty.

On 10 December 2019, he was sentenced to 20 years in a strict regime penal colony. On 6 August 2021, the court of appeal reduced the term by a month.

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