Anzor Tekilov
Anzor Tekilov, born 1990, Moscow. Charges: Article 205 item a (part unknown) applied with Article 30 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code (Preparation or attempt to commit a group terrorist attack); Article 222 part 3, Russian Criminal Code (Illicit trafficking in firearms or ammunition (by a group, using official positions or the Internet)); Article 223 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code (Manufacturing is understood as the creation of items specified by regulations without obtaining a…); “The case of the preparation of a terrorist attack in the "Kirgizia" cinema theatre”. Sentence (April 21, 2016): Eleven years' of prison detention in a strict regime penal colony. Status: at large. Recognition: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, April 30, 2017; Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion, April 16, 2017.
In brief
Moscow · Moscow · Unemployed · Terrorism cases
Sentence
11 years
Eleven years' of prison detention in a strict regime penal colony.
Upheld May 15, 2017
Charges
- Article 205 item a (part unknown) applied with Article 30 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code — Preparation or attempt to commit a group terrorist attack
- Article 222 part 3, Russian Criminal Code — Illicit trafficking in firearms or ammunition (by a group, using official positions or the Internet)
- Article 223 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code — Manufacturing is understood as the creation of items specified by regulations without obtaining a license in the prescribed manner, where the items acquire the properties of firearms, ammunition, explosives, or explosive devices
Full wording of the charges
He was a part of a criminal group plotting a terrorist attack.
Latest event
November 25, 2024 — imprisonment ends
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, April 30, 2017
- Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, April 16, 2017
Timeline
· Imprisonment ends
· Imprisonment begins
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion
Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners
· Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 11 years
· Persecution begins
The case of the preparation of a terrorist attack in the "Kirgizia" cinema theatre
Criminal case
The case of the preparation of a terrorist attack in the "Kirgizia" cinema theatre
Other defendants in the case
- Tagir Akhtakhanov — At large, 11 years
- Nurmagomed Balakadashev — At large, 11 years
- Inyal Balakadashev — At large, 11 years
- Artur Maslakov — Location unknown, 12 years
- Tazhib Mahmudov — Imprisoned, 13 years
- Matlyuba Nasimova — At large, 11 years
- Islam Ramazanov — At large, 11 years
- Ersmak Saraliyev — At large, 11 years
- Aslan Suleymanov — At large, 11 years
- Artur Tekilov — At large, 11 years
- Tekilov Imran — Location unknown, 12 years
- Sergey Cheprasov — At large, 11 years
- Adam Shavkhalov — At large, 11 years
- Khoso Esmurzaev — At large, 11 years
Details and sources
Full summary
Resident of Moscow. In the night of 26 November 2013, detained together with twelve other people during a raid on the hostel where he was living at the time. Accused of preparing a terrorist attack in the "Kirgizia" cinema theatre. The case contains the testimony of a secret witness who was allegedly held in the same cell with Tekilov at the pre-trial detention centre and heard him talk about his readiness to kill infidels, his participation in the preparation of the terrorist attack on the cinema theatre and his involvement in the illegal supply of weapons from Chechnya to Moscow. At the same time, the witness claimed that Tekilov confessed to him that he and his brothers had participated in the events in Budennovsk and Pervomaysk, although they had all been young children at the time.
Human rights activists believe that there is no convincing evidence of his involvement in the crime; in their opinion, the persecution was part of a campaign to pressure Muslims.
On 22 April 2016, he was sentenced to eleven years in a strict regime penal colony. He is supposed to have been released in November 2024.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 205 item a (part unknown) applied with Article 30 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.