Almaz Usmanov
Almaz Usmanov, born 1989, Bashkortostan. Charges: Article 205.5 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code (Organisation of or participation in the activities of a terrorist organisation); “The case of Almaz Usmanov”. Sentence (August 29, 2019): Eleven years' imprisonment in a strict regime colony. Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since August 16, 2018. Recognition: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, February 26, 2020; Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, February 26, 2020.
In brief
Bashkortostan · Ufa · Entrepreneurs · Terrorism cases, Cases against Hizb ut-Tahrir
Sentence
11 years
Eleven years' imprisonment in a strict regime colony
Upheld December 9, 2019
Charges
- Article 205.5 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code — Organisation of or participation in the activities of a terrorist organisation
Full wording of the charges
involved in the activities of the Hizb ut-Tahrir cell in Ufa
Latest event
February 26, 2020 — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion
Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, February 26, 2020
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, February 26, 2020
Timeline
· Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion
Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 11 years
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
· Persecution begins
The case of Almaz Usmanov
Criminal case
The case of Almaz Usmanov
Thematic group: Third Ufa case of "Hizb ut-Tahrir"
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Full summary
He owned a halal meat shop and sold products at a discounted rate for transfer to defendants in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case. In August 2018, he was detained and then arrested on charges of involvement in a terrorist organisation.
On 30 August 2019, he was sentenced to 11 years in a strict regime colony.
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