Zekirya Muratov
Zekirya Muratov, born 1957, Occupied territory of Republic of Crimea. Charges: Article 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in the activities of a terrorist organization); Article 278 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Preparing for violent seizure of power or alteration of the constitutional order); “Zekirya Muratov's case”. Sentence (February 10, 2022): 11 years 6 months imprisonment in a maximum security colony. Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since July 7, 2020; place of detention: Penal colony No. 5, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. Recognition: Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, July 18, 2022.
In brief
Occupied territory of Republic of Crimea · Alushta · Teachers · Terrorism cases, Cases against Hizb ut-Tahrir
Sentence
11 years 6 months
imprisonment in a maximum security colony
Upheld July 11, 2023
Charges
- Article 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Participation in the activities of a terrorist organization
- Article 278 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Preparing for violent seizure of power or alteration of the constitutional order
Full wording of the charges
Member of a cell of the international terrorist organization "Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami", carrying out anti-constitutional activities based on the doctrine of establishing a so-called "world caliphate", destroying the institutions of secular society and aimed at overthrowing the current authorities by force.
Latest event
March 1, 2024 — imprisonment begins
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners, July 18, 2022
Timeline
· Imprisonment begins
· Cassation ruling
upheld
· Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 11 years 6 months
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Pre-trial Detention Centre №1 (SIZO-1) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russian Federation for the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol
· Persecution begins
Zekirya Muratov's case
Criminal case
Zekirya Muratov's case
Write a letter
Facility: Penal colony No. 5, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
603108, Россия, Нижегородская область, г. Нижний Новгород, ул. Ракетная, д. 2Д, ФКУ «ИК № 5 ГУФСИН России по Нижегородской области», Муратов Зекирья Саитович, 1957 г.р.
Details and sources
Full summary
Detained on July 7, 2020 and taken into custody the next day on charges of participating in the activities of a terrorist organization. On February 11, 2022, he was sentenced to 11 and a half years in a maximum security colony.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
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