Zafar Yakubov
Zafar Yakubov, born 1984, Tatarstan. Charges: Article 205.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Assisting in terrorist activities); Article 205.5 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Organizing the activities of a terrorist organization); “Zafar Yakubov's case of activities of a terrorist organisation”. Sentence (December 15, 2019): 17 years' imprisonment in a strict regime penal colony. Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since April 25, 2018; place of detention: Prison No. 2, Vladimir Oblast. Recognition: Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, February 26, 2020; Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, February 26, 2020.
In brief
Tatarstan · Kazan · Entrepreneurs · Terrorism cases, Cases against Hizb ut-Tahrir
Sentence
17 years
imprisonment in a strict regime penal colony
Upheld April 21, 2020
Charges
- Article 205.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Assisting in terrorist activities
- Article 205.5 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Organizing the activities of a terrorist organization
Full wording of the charges
participated in organising the activities of a terrorist organisation, recruited supporters
Latest event
April 21, 2020 — appeal
The court upheld the verdict.
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, February 26, 2020
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, February 26, 2020
Timeline
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 17 years
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
· Persecution begins
Zafar Yakubov's case of activities of a terrorist organisation
Criminal case
Zafar Yakubov's case of activities of a terrorist organisation
Thematic group: Fifth case of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Tatarstan
Write a letter
Facility: Prison No. 2, Vladimir Oblast
Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
600020, ул. Большая Нижегородская д. 67, Владимирская область, г. Владимир, ФКУ «Тюрьма № 2 УФСИН по Владимирской области» «Владимирский централ», Якубов Зафар Набиевич, 1984 г.р.
Details and sources
Full summary
He was detained on April 24th, 2018, and subsequently arrested on charges of organising activities of a terrorist organisation in connection with alleged involvement in the Islamist party Hizb-ut-Tahrir, unrelated to terrorism. Also charged with recruitment to a terrorist organisation.
On December 17th, 2019, Zafar was sentenced to 17 years in strict regime penal colony. In the summer of 2021, while in colony, he went on a hunger strike due to biased and cruel treatment by the Federal Penitentiary Service officers: he was placed in a punitive isolation cell because of going to a shop located on the territory of the colony. On August 5th Zafar stopped his hunger strike.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
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