Rasim Satayev
Rasim Satayev, born 1988, Bashkortostan. Charges: Article 278 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Preparing for violent seizure of power or alteration of the constitutional order); Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Organization of the activities of an extremist organization); “The case of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Ufa”. Sentence (April 8, 2015): Six years six months' deprivation of liberty in a strict regime colony. Status: at large. Recognition: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, April 13, 2015; Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion, June 8, 2014.
In brief
Bashkortostan · Ufa · Extremism cases, Cases against Hizb ut-Tahrir
Sentence
6 years 6 months
Six years six months' deprivation of liberty in a strict regime colony
No information about an appeal ruling.
Charges
- Article 278 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Preparing for violent seizure of power or alteration of the constitutional order
- Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Organization of the activities of an extremist organization
Full wording of the charges
Participated in the organisation of the activities of the Hizb ut-Tahrir cell and the preparation of a violent change of the constitutional order
Latest event
September 18, 2019 — imprisonment ends
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, April 13, 2015
- Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, June 8, 2014
Timeline
· Imprisonment ends
· Persecution ends
· Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion
Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 6 years 6 months
· Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
· Preventive measure: travel ban (written undertaking)
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Pre-trial Detention Centre №1 (SIZO-1) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russian Federation for the Republic of Bashkortostan
· Persecution begins
The case of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Ufa
Criminal case
The case of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Ufa
Other defendants in the case
- Aidar Garifianov — At large, 6 years
- Evgeny Kulagin — At large, 7 years
- Alexey Khamadeev — At large, 6 years
Thematic group: Ufa case of Hizb ut-Tahrir
Details and sources
Full summary
Rasim Satayev, along with three other residents of Bashkiria, was charged with participation in the activities of the organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami (Islamic Liberation Party), which was declared a terrorist organisation in 2003 at a closed session of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, as well as with "preparation for actions aimed at forcible seizure of power, as well as forcible change of the constitutional order". According to the FSB, in 2011-2012 he created a regional subdivision of the banned organisation in Bashkiria and was engaged in the recruitment of supporters and organisation of pickets, meetings and conferences to promote the ideas of his organisation, as well as distribution of propaganda materials with calls "to overthrow and change the socio-political order by armed means"; earlier he was already criminally prosecuted under part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code. In the "Ufa case", he was kept in custody since August 2013. In April 2015, he was sentenced to 6.5 years in a strict regime colony.
He was released in September 2019.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 278 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.