Mikhail Smadich
- Criminal Code
- Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
- Case category
- Extremism cases
- Verdict
- Imprisonment (general regime)
- Sentence
- 2 years 8 months
- Date of verdict
- 2025-10-27
- Region
- Karachay-Cherkessia
- City
- Cherkessk
Case summary
Resident of Cherkessk. 28 May 2024 taken into custody on charges of involvement in the activities of an extremist organisation in connection with alleged involvement in At-Taqfir Wal-Hijra. Some scholars and human rights activists believe that no such organisation exists. On 27 October 2025, Smadich was sentenced to imprisonment in a general regime colony.
Others charged under Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
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