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Ilshat Salimov

At largeChecked October 18, 2026

Ilshat Salimov, born 1987, Bashkortostan. Charges: Article 205.5 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code (Organisation of or participation in the activities of a terrorist organisation); Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in the activities of an extremist organization); “Dyurtulin case of "Hizb ut-Tahrir"”. Sentence (June 9, 2015): Six years six months' deprivation of liberty in a general regime colony. Status: at large. Recognition: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, August 17, 2016; Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion, August 8, 2016.

In brief

Bashkortostan · Dyurtyuli · Terrorism cases, Extremism cases, Cases against Hizb ut-Tahrir

Sentence

6 years 6 months

Six years six months' deprivation of liberty in a general regime colony

Verdict June 9, 2015

No information about an appeal ruling.

Charges

Full wording of the charges

participated in the activities of a Hizb ut-Tahrir cell in the Dyurtulinsky district of Bashkortostan, involving parishioners of local mosques in the organisation by showing them "extremist videos and literature based on psychological influence and manipulation techniques".

Latest event

August 25, 2020 — imprisonment ends

Checked October 18, 2026 · no changes since October 15

Recognition by rights defenders

Timeline

  1. · Imprisonment ends

  2. · Persecution ends

  3. · Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion

    Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners

  4. · Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion

    Memorial Human Rights Centre

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

  6. · First-instance verdict

    guilty verdict · 6 years 6 months

Criminal case

Dyurtulin case of "Hizb ut-Tahrir"

Other defendants in the case

Thematic group: Dyurtulin case of "Hizb ut-Tahrir"

Details and sources

Full summary

According to OVD-Info

On 25 February 2014, detained on charges of participation in the activities of the Hizb ut-Tahrir cell. A search was conducted and he was arrested. On 10 June 2015, he was sentenced to six and a half years in a general regime colony. Upon arrival at the colony, immediately sent to a cell-type room, three months later sent to a strict regime colony in a single cell-type room for a year. He was released in August 2020.

In 2011, he was sentenced to a year suspended sentence for participation in the activities of an extremist organisation.

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Citizenship
Russia
Sources (2)

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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