Danis Safargali

On 21 October 2016, Danis Safargali was detained by police officers, as he was wanted on charges of intentional infliction of minor harm to health (part 2 of article 115 of the Criminal Code), hooliganism (part 2 of article 213) and battery (article 116) - during a scuffle with the owners of the apartment where he and his wife lived, Safargali stood up for his pregnant wife, who was kicked in the stomach. In December 2016, Safargali was charged under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (incitement to ethnic hatred). The reason for criminal prosecution were 15 posts on Safargali's personal page in the social network "VKontakte", posted from March 2014 to March 2016, in which he spoke "about Russians, the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and the President of Russia (published an image of a man resembling Vladimir Putin with the inscription "Putler Kaput!"), including in the context of the situation with Crimea". After a domestic conflict with the owners of the premises that Safargali rented, he was placed in a pre-trial detention centre, where he was later charged under part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code.

On 31 August 2017, he was sentenced to three years in a general regime colony. On 14 February 2019, the punishment was commuted due to the partial decriminalisation of Article 282 of the CC. On 4 March Safargali was released.