October 20, 2026, 10:52 AMRSSRU

Journalist

Rustem Osmanov

ImprisonedChecked October 18, 2026

Rustem Osmanov, born 1989, Occupied territory of Republic of Crimea. Charges: Article 205.5 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code (Organisation of or participation in the activities of a terrorist organisation); “The Sixth Bakhchysarai Hizb ut-Tahrir Case”. Status: imprisoned.

In brief

Occupied territory of Republic of Crimea · Bakhchysarai · Journalists · Terrorism cases, Cases against Hizb ut-Tahrir

Sentence

No information about a verdict.

Preventive measure: pre-trial detention since November 1, 2024

Charges

Latest event

March 18, 2024 — added to the rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”

Checked October 18, 2026 · no changes since October 15

Timeline

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

  2. · Preventive measure: pre-trial detention

    Pre-trial Detention Centre №2 (SIZO-2) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol

  3. · Persecution begins

    The Sixth Bakhchysarai Hizb ut-Tahrir Case

  4. · Preventive measure: placement in a temporary detention facility

Criminal case

The Sixth Bakhchysarai Hizb ut-Tahrir Case

Other defendants in the case

Thematic group: Sixth Hizb ut-Tahrir case in Bakhchysarai

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Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)

344022 г. Ростов-на-Дону, ул. Максима Горького, 219, ФКУ СИЗО-1 УФСИН России по Ростовской области, Османов Рустем Османович, 1989 г.р.

Address checked October 18, 2026

Details and sources

Full summary

According to OVD-Info

A resident of Bakhchysarai. He was apprehended on 5 March 2024 and remanded in custody the following day in connection with a case involving participation in the activities of a terrorist organisation.

Other people prosecuted under Article 205.5 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code

Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.

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