Aisia Shabanov
Aisia Shabanov, born 1965, Ulyanovsk Oblast. Charges: Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in the activities of an extremist organization); “The Tablighi Jamaat case in Ulyanovsk”. Sentence (July 19, 2022): 3 years 6 months' suspended sentence, with a probation period of 2 years 8 months, and 10 months' restriction of liberty. Status: at large. Recognition: SOVA Center — recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion, August 23, 2022.
In brief
Ulyanovsk Oblast · Ulyanovsk · Extremism cases
Sentence
3 years 6 months
suspended sentence, with a probation period of 2 years 8 months, and 10 months' restriction of liberty
First instance, April 12, 2022: 3 years 6 months
Charges
- Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Participation in the activities of an extremist organization
Latest event
August 28, 2024 — removed from the rosfinmonitoring list
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion — SOVA Center, August 23, 2022
Timeline
· Removed from the Rosfinmonitoring list
· Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion
SOVA Center
· Appeal ruling
sentence changed · 3 years 6 months
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 3 years 6 months
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Persecution begins
The Tablighi Jamaat case in Ulyanovsk
Criminal case
The Tablighi Jamaat case in Ulyanovsk
Other defendants in the case
- Myasut Rafikov — Location unknown, 6 years 2 months
- Mansur Sadykov — At large, 3 years
- Saubian Salkin — At large, 1 year 8 months
Details and sources
Full summary
Resident of the Ulyanovsk region. Presumably detained in the summer of 2020 on charges of participation in the activities of an extremist organisation due to involvement in the activities of the Islamic movement Tablighi Jamaat. Its adherents are persecuted solely because of their religious activities. He was under a recognisance not to leave the country. On 13 April 2022, Shabanov was sentenced to three and a half years' suspended sentence.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.