Ibrahim Shavkatov
Ibrahim Shavkatov, born 1994, Tatarstan. Charges: Article 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in the activities of a terrorist organization); “The case of Marat Dindarov and Ibrahim Shavkatov”. Sentence (December 27, 2017): imprisonment for six years 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, March 11, 2018; Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as a political prisoner, February 27, 2018.
In brief
Tatarstan · Unemployed · Terrorism cases, Cases against Hizb ut-Tahrir
Sentence
6 years
imprisonment for six years in a general regime colony
Upheld March 28, 2018
Charges
- Article 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Participation in the activities of a terrorist organization
Full wording of the charges
Participated in the activities of a branch of a terrorist organization.
Latest event
March 9, 2022 — imprisonment ends
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, March 11, 2018
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial Human Rights Centre, February 27, 2018
Timeline
· Imprisonment ends
· Persecution ends
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion
Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 6 years
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
· Persecution begins
The case of Marat Dindarov and Ibrahim Shavkatov
Criminal case
The case of Marat Dindarov and Ibrahim Shavkatov
Other defendants in the case
- Marat Dindarov — At large, 7 years
Thematic group: Third Hizb ut-Tahrir case in Tatarstan
Details and sources
Full summary
In March 2016, he was detained after a search and on the next day, arrested on charges of participation in the activities of a terrorist organization. On December 28th, 2017, he was sentenced to six years in a general regime colony. The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation approved the sentence. He was released from prison in March 2022.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.