Mikhail Toptygin
Mikhail Toptygin, born 1983, Bashkortostan. Charges: Article 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in the activities of a terrorist organization); “The third case of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Ufa”. Sentence (February 20, 2019): 18 years' imprisonment in a strict regime penal colony. Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since July 28, 2017; place of detention: Penal colony No. 2, Ivanovo Oblast. Recognition: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, January 27, 2019; Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, April 19, 2018.
In brief
Bashkortostan · Ufa · Manual workers · Terrorism cases, Cases against Hizb ut-Tahrir
Sentence
15 years
18 years' imprisonment in a strict regime penal colony
Upheld October 17, 2019
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 the party cell in Ufa, organised and led by an unidentified person, from February 2015 to 20 April 2017: attended illegal meetings, encouraged other Muslims to join the party, studied and stored banned literature, and abided by conspiracy measures
Latest event
October 17, 2019 — appeal
The court upheld the verdict.
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, January 27, 2019
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, April 19, 2018
Timeline
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 15 years
· 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
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
· Persecution begins
The third case of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Ufa
Criminal case
The third case of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Ufa
Other defendants in the case
- Ural Abdrakhimov — Imprisoned, 15 years
- Radik Valiakhmetov — Imprisoned, 13 years
- Timur Gadiev — Imprisoned, 13 years
- Ural Galiev — Imprisoned, 11 years
- Vadim Davletbaev — Imprisoned, 12 years
- Ruslan Zainullin — Imprisoned, 15 years
- Batyr Mukhametov — Imprisoned, 16 years 6 months
- Artem Naumov — Imprisoned, 11 years
- Bulat Rakhmanov — Imprisoned, 16 years 3 months
- Ruslan Rakhmatullin — Imprisoned, 14 years
- Iaroslav Timofeev — Imprisoned, 12 years
Thematic group: Third Ufa case of "Hizb ut-Tahrir"
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Facility: Penal colony No. 2, Ivanovo Oblast
Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
155644 Ивановская обл., Южский р-н, с. Талицы, ул. Ленина, д. 18, ИК-2, ФКУ «ИК № 2 УФСИН по Ивановской области», Топтыгин Михаил Юрьевич, 1983 г.р.
Details and sources
Full summary
Resident of Ufa. In April 2011, he was detained and later arrested on suspicion of involvement in an extremist organisation due to his alleged involvement in the activities of the Islamist party Hizb ut-Tahrir, which has nothing to do with extremism and terrorism. In February 2012, he was sentenced to a year and four months in a penal colony.
In the summer of 2017, detained and then arrested in a case of involvement in a terrorist organisation, again in connection with Hizb ut-Tahrir. On 21 February 2019, sentenced to 15 years in a strict-regime penal colony.
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- Citizenship
- Russia
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