Jeyhun Rustamov
Jeyhun Rustamov, born 1970, Moscow. Charges: Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in the activities of an extremist organization); “The case of Zurab Dzhabrailov and Jeyhun Rustamov”. Sentence (July 10, 2024): 2 years 9 months' deprivation of liberty in a general regime penal colony. Status: at large. Recognition: Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, July 24, 2025.
In brief
Moscow · Moscow · Entrepreneurs · Extremism cases
Sentence
2 years 9 months
deprivation of liberty in a general regime penal colony.
Upheld December 10, 2024
Charges
- Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Participation in the activities of an extremist organization
Full wording of the charges
Law enforcement authorities allege that he took part in Muslim gatherings where the works of Turkish theologian Said Nursi were studied, thereby continuing the activities of the banned Nurdzhular association.
Latest event
August 20, 2025 — imprisonment ends
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners, July 24, 2025
Timeline
· Imprisonment ends
· Persecution ends
· Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 2 years 9 months
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
· Persecution begins
The case of Zurab Dzhabrailov and Jeyhun Rustamov
Criminal case
The case of Zurab Dzhabrailov and Jeyhun Rustamov
Other defendants in the case
- Zurab Dzhabrailov — Imprisoned, 6 years
Details and sources
Full summary
On 2 August 2023, he was taken into custody in Moscow on charges of participating in the activities of the banned extremist organisation Nurdzhular. On 10 July 2024, the court sentenced him to two years and nine months in a general-regime penal colony. He was presumably released in August 2025.
Other people prosecuted under Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.