Airat Mustaev
Airat Mustaev, born 1989, Bashkortostan. Charges: Article 205.5 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code (Organisation of or participation in the activities of a terrorist organisation); “The case of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Sterlitamak”. Sentence (May 11, 2016): five years' detention in a general regime penal colony. Status: at large. Recognition: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, August 11, 2019; Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, August 7, 2019.
In brief
Bashkortostan · Sterlitamak · Terrorism cases, Cases against Hizb ut-Tahrir
Sentence
5 years
five years' detention in a general regime penal colony
Upheld August 3, 2016
Charges
- Article 205.5 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code — Organisation of or participation in the activities of a terrorist organisation
Full wording of the charges
Participated in the activities of Hizb ut-Tahrir
Latest event
April 22, 2020 — imprisonment ends
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, August 11, 2019
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, August 7, 2019
Timeline
· Imprisonment ends
· Persecution ends
· Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion
Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners
· Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 5 years
· 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 Bashkortostan
· Persecution begins
The case of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Sterlitamak
Criminal case
The case of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Sterlitamak
Other defendants in the case
- Vilyur Baisuakov — At large, 5 years
- Rustam Zainullin — At large, 6 years
- Almaz Karimov — At large, 5 years
- Ruslan Ryskulov — At large, 6 years
Thematic group: Sterlitamak "Hizb ut-Tahrir" case
Details and sources
Full summary
In April 2015, detained after a search and arrested together with four others on charges of participation in the activities of the terrorist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir; on 12 May 2016, sentenced to five years' imprisonment in a general regime penal colony. He was released in April 2020.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 205.5 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.