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Albert Valiullin

ImprisonedChecked October 18, 2026

Albert Valiullin, born 1974, Tatarstan. Charges: Article 205.5 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code (Organisation of or participation in the activities of a terrorist organisation); Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Organization of the activities of an extremist organization); “The case of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Tatarstan”. Sentence (December 7, 2017): Eighteen years' imprisonment in a strict regime penal colony. Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since October 15, 2014; place of detention: Penal colony No. 9, Kursk Oblast. Recognition: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, December 1, 2017; Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion, November 9, 2017.

In brief

Tatarstan · Kazan · Entrepreneurs · Terrorism cases, Extremism cases, Cases against Hizb ut-Tahrir

Sentence

18 years

Eighteen years' imprisonment in a strict regime penal colony

Verdict December 7, 2017

Upheld July 9, 2018

Charges

Full wording of the charges

Participated in organising the activities of a terrorist organisation

Latest event

July 9, 2018 — appeal

The court upheld the verdict.

Checked October 18, 2026 · no changes since October 15

Recognition by rights defenders

Timeline

  1. · Appeal ruling

    upheld

  2. · Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”

  3. · First-instance verdict

    guilty verdict · 18 years

  4. · Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion

    Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners

  5. · Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion

    Memorial Human Rights Centre

  6. · Preventive measure: pre-trial detention

    Pre-trial Detention Centre №1 (SIZO-1) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russian Federation for the Republic of Tatarstan

Criminal case

The case of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Tatarstan

Other defendants in the case

Thematic group: Hizb ut-Tahrir case in Tatarstan

Write a letter

Facility: Penal colony No. 9, Kursk Oblast

Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)

305516, Курская область, г. Курск, пос. Косиново, 2А, ФКУ «ИК № 9 УФСИН России по Курской области», Валиуллин Альберт Рафикович, 1974 г.р.

Address checked October 18, 2026

Details and sources

Full summary

According to OVD-Info

On 14 October 2014, he was detained during a search and, on 15 October, arrested along with seven others on charges of participating in the activities of a terrorist organisation — Hizb ut-Tahrir. On 8 December 2017, he was sentenced to 18 years in a strcit-regime penal colony.

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Sources (2)

Other people prosecuted under Article 205.5 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code

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