Albert Shafiev
Albert Shafiev, born 1988, Bashkortostan. Charges: Article 205.5 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Organizing the activities of a terrorist organization); “The case of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Salavat”. Sentence (December 10, 2017): 16 years' imprisonment in a strict-regime penal colony. Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since September 7, 2016; place of detention: Penal colony No. 5, Orenburg Oblast. Recognition: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, July 3, 2018; Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, May 10, 2018.
In brief
Bashkortostan · Salavat · Unemployed · Terrorism cases, Cases against Hizb ut-Tahrir
Sentence
16 years
imprisonment in a strict-regime penal colony
Upheld April 11, 2018
Charges
- Article 205.5 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Organizing the activities of a terrorist organization
Full wording of the charges
In October 2015, together with Aidar Aidarbekov, organised a Hizb ut-Tahrir cell in Salavat
Latest event
July 3, 2018 — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion
Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, July 3, 2018
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, May 10, 2018
Timeline
· Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion
Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners
· Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 16 years
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
· Persecution begins
The case of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Salavat
Criminal case
The case of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Salavat
Other defendants in the case
- Aidar Aidarbekov — Imprisoned, 16 years
- Radik Imangulov — Imprisoned, 11 years
- Nail Miniakhmetov — Imprisoned, 12 years
- Maxim Puigin — Imprisoned, 11 years
Thematic group: Salavat case of Hizb ut-Tahrir
Write a letter
Facility: Penal colony No. 5, Orenburg Oblast
Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
462353, Оренбургская обл., г. Новотроицк, пос. Максай, ул. Заводская, д. 26, ФКУ «ИК № 5 УФСИН России по Оренбургской области», Шафиев Альберт Римович, 1988 г.р.
Details and sources
Full summary
Arrested in September 2016 on suspicion of involvement in a terrorist organisation. On 11 December 2017, he was sentenced to 12 years in a strict regime penal colony. In 2020, the Novotroitsk City Court toughened the punishment, sending Shafiev to prison for two years out of 12. This decision was based on 52 reports that he allegedly violated the conditions of his sentence in the colony. After two years, Shafiev was to be transferred from Balashov prison (Saratov region) back to a colony in the Orenburg region, with the penultimate point of the transfer being remand prison No. 1 in Orenburg. On 2 November 2022, a stranger called Shafiev's mother, introducing himself as a lawyer, and informed her that Shafiev was on hunger strike in this pre-trial detention centre. She asked the man to come to see her son, but, according to the woman's interlocutor, he was told at the centre that Shafiev had been transferred to an unknown location. Shafiev was later found in pre-trial detention centre No. 2 in Orsk.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
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