Danis Safargali
Danis Safargali, born 1976, Tatarstan. Charges: Article 115 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code (Intentional infliction of minor harm to health); Article 116, Russian Criminal Code (Battery); Article 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Hooliganism (group, with weapons, or against a government official)); “The case of Danis Safargali”. Sentence (August 30, 2017): Three-year imprisonment in a general regime colony. Status: at large. Recognition: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as a political prisoner, September 7, 2017; Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as a political prisoner, August 27, 2017.
In brief
Tatarstan · Kazan · Office workers · Extremism cases
Sentence
3 years
Three-year imprisonment in a general regime colony
Upheld December 10, 2019
Charges
- Article 115 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code — Intentional infliction of minor harm to health
- Article 116, Russian Criminal Code — Battery
- Article 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Hooliganism (group, with weapons, or against a government official)
- Article 282 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Incitement of hatred or enmity
Full wording of the charges
used violence against the employees of Pilgrim LLC, in publications on social networks incited national and religious hatred, as well as hatred towards the President of Russia, the authorities, and the media
Latest event
June 18, 2020 — removed from the rosfinmonitoring list
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, September 7, 2017
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial Human Rights Centre, August 27, 2017
Timeline
· Removed from the Rosfinmonitoring list
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· Persecution ends
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 3 years
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· 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 Tatarstan
· Persecution begins
The case of Danis Safargali
Criminal case
The case of Danis Safargali
Details and sources
Full summary
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.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
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