Albert Naumov (Gabdrakhman)
Albert Naumov (Gabdrakhman), born 1976, Tatarstan. Charges: Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Organization of the activities of an extremist organization); “Gabdrakhman Naumov's case”. Sentence (November 1, 2021): 6 years 6 months' imprisonment in a general regime penal colony. Status: at large.
In brief
Tatarstan · Kazan · Teachers · Extremism cases
Sentence
6 years 6 months
imprisonment in a general regime penal colony
Upheld July 20, 2022
Charges
- Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Organization of the activities of an extremist organization
Full wording of the charges
Organised the activities of a cell of the banned religious association Nurdjular
Latest event
October 1, 2025 — imprisonment ends
Timeline
· Imprisonment ends
· Persecution ends
· Cassation ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 6 years 6 months
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Persecution begins
Gabdrakhman Naumov's case
Criminal case
Gabdrakhman Naumov's case
Details and sources
Full summary
A lecturer at the Russian Islamic University, member of the Ulema Council, former imam-khatib of the Al-Iman parish of the muhtasibat of the Sovetsky and Privolzhsky districts of Kazan. Detained and taken into custody in March 2020 on charges of organising the activities of an extremist organisation: according to the investigation, he was the leader of a cell of the "Nurdjular" movement, as Russian investigative authorities call the disparate groups of followers of the Turkish theologian Said Nursi. On 2 November 2021, he was sentenced to six and a half years in a general regime colony. Presumably, he was released in October 2025.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
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