Ildar Urazbakhtin
Ildar Urazbakhtin, born 1963, Krasnoyarsk Krai. Charges: Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Organization of the activities of an extremist organization); “Ildar Urazbakhtin case”. Sentence (October 9, 2022): three years' suspended imprisonment. Status: at large. Recognition: Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, August 11, 2021.
In brief
Krasnoyarsk Krai · Kodinsk · Engineers · Extremism cases, Cases against Jehovah's Witnesses
Sentence
3 years
three years' suspended imprisonment
Upheld February 1, 2023
Charges
- Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Organization of the activities of an extremist organization
Full wording of the charges
Involved in organising the activities of an extremist organisation
Latest event
May 26, 2026 — removed from the rosfinmonitoring list
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, August 11, 2021
Timeline
· Removed from the Rosfinmonitoring list
· Persecution ends
· Imprisonment ends
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 3 years
· Preventive measure: travel ban (written undertaking)
· 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: house arrest
· Persecution begins
Ildar Urazbakhtin case
· Preventive measure: placement in a temporary detention facility
Criminal case
Ildar Urazbakhtin case
Details and sources
Full summary
On 21 July 2021, Urazbakhtin's home was searched and he was detained. The next day the court sent him under house arrest in the case of organising activities of an extremist organisation. Later he was released under recognizance not to leave. On 10 October 2022, he was sentenced to three years' suspended sentence.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.