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Salavat Muzafarov

At largeChecked October 18, 2026

Salavat Muzafarov, born 1993, Tatarstan. Charges: Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in the activities of an extremist organization); “Nurists' case in Tatarstan”. Sentence (July 28, 2019): 4 years of deprivation of liberty in a general regime penal colony. Status: at large.

In brief

Tatarstan · Kazan · Extremism cases

Sentence

4 years

of deprivation of liberty in a general regime penal colony

Verdict July 28, 2019

Upheld November 15, 2019

Charges

Full wording of the charges

Being an active member of the international religious extremist association "Nurdzhular", he has been living with Muslim youth since November 2016, maintaining a training regime, and learning alongside them in the spirit of the goals and values of "Nurdzhular".

Latest event

January 1, 2021 — persecution ends

Checked October 18, 2026 · no changes since October 15

Timeline

  1. · Persecution ends

  2. · Appeal ruling

    upheld

  3. · First-instance verdict

    guilty verdict · 4 years

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

  5. · Persecution begins

    Nurists' case in Tatarstan

Criminal case

Nurists' case in Tatarstan

Other defendants in the case

Thematic group: The case of the Nurcists (Nurcu followers) in Tatarstan

Details and sources

Full summary

According to OVD-Info

He has been detained in a case of participation in the activities of an extremist organisation and taken into custody. On 29 July 2019, he was sentenced to four years in a general regime penal colony. Presumably, he has been released.

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