Aidar Sageyev
Aidar Sageyev, Tatarstan. Charges: Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Organization of the activities of an extremist organization); “The Nursu case in Naberezhnye Chelny”. Sentence (March 13, 2023): 2 years 6 months' deprivation of liberty in a general regime colony. Status: at large.
In brief
Tatarstan · Naberezhnye Chelny · Extremism cases
Sentence
2 years 6 months
deprivation of liberty in a general regime colony
Upheld June 19, 2023
Charges
- Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Organization of the activities of an extremist organization
Full wording of the charges
According to the investigation, Sageyev and his assistant Agayev organised a "cell" of "Nurdzhular" in the city in 2020-2021, attracted new participants, including foreign students, stored relevant literature, and Akhmedov actively participated in the activities of the cell.
Latest event
August 11, 2023 — imprisonment ends
Timeline
· Imprisonment ends
· Persecution ends
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 2 years 6 months
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
· Persecution begins
The Nursu case in Naberezhnye Chelny
Criminal case
The Nursu case in Naberezhnye Chelny
Other defendants in the case
- Hunar Agaev — At large, 2 years 6 months
- Amrakh Akhmedov — At large, 1 year 6 months
Thematic group: The case of the Nurcists (Nurcu followers) in Tatarstan
Details and sources
Full summary
Sageyev, together with the other defendants, Agayev and Akhmedov, were detained on 23 November and arrested on 25 November 2021. The two defendants were sent to pre-trial detention centre, Akhmedov - under house arrest.
On 8 June 2022, the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the IC for the Republic of Tatarstan reported about the transfer of the case to the court. The prosecution asked to sentence the defendants to eight, seven and five years' imprisonment. All three pleaded not guilty, and their lawyers insisted on their acquittal.
On 13 March 2023, Naberezhnochelninsk city court passed a sentence, Sageyev received 2 and a half years in a penal colony. Presumably, he was released in August 2023.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.