Dilmurat Umerov
Dilmurat Umerov, born 1963, Orenburg Oblast. Charges: Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in the activities of an extremist organization); “The second Tablighi Jamaat case in Orenburg Region”. Sentence (March 10, 2019): 2-years' imprisonment. Status: at large. Recognition: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, February 16, 2021; Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, February 9, 2021.
In brief
Orenburg Oblast · Orenburg · Unemployed · Extremism cases
Sentence
2 years
2-years' imprisonment
Upheld May 30, 2019
Charges
- Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Participation in the activities of an extremist organization
Full wording of the charges
Umerov allegedly was a member of an extremist organization cell.
Latest event
January 28, 2022 — imprisonment ends
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, February 16, 2021
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, February 9, 2021
Timeline
· Imprisonment ends
· 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
guilty verdict
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 2 years
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Persecution begins
The second Tablighi Jamaat case in Orenburg Region
Criminal case
The second Tablighi Jamaat case in Orenburg Region
Other defendants in the case
- Yerzhan Aitov — At large, 2 years
- Rakhimzhan Aimukhamedov — At large, 2 years
- Tulegen Akbatyrov — Location unknown, 2 years
- Konstantin Dorokhin — At large, 2 years 6 months
- Kanat Krushenov — At large, 2 years 6 months
- Talgat Satubaldin — At large, 2 years
- Viacheslav Semakin — At large, 2 years
- Rifat Habibullin — At large, 2 years 6 months
- Alexandr Shudobaev — At large, 6 years 6 months
Details and sources
Full summary
On 6 July 2017, he was detained together with 18 other people on suspicion of continuing the activities of an extremist organisation. Signed a recognizance not to leave the country. On 11 March 2019, sentenced to two years in a penal colony. Released in January 2021.
Other people prosecuted under Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.