Timur Yalkabov
Timur Yalkabov, born 1980, Occupied territory of Republic of Crimea. Charges: Article 205.5 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Organizing the activities of a terrorist organization); “The third Simferopol "Hizb-ut-Tahrir" case”. Sentence (March 21, 2022): 17 years' imprisonment in a strict regime penal colony. Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since February 17, 2021; place of detention: Penal colony No. 17, Murmansk Oblast. Recognition: Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, January 31, 2023.
In brief
Occupied territory of Republic of Crimea · Simferopol · Manual workers · Terrorism cases, Cases against Hizb ut-Tahrir
Sentence
17 years
imprisonment in a strict regime penal colony
Upheld November 6, 2022
Charges
- 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
Latest event
January 31, 2023 — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners, January 31, 2023
Timeline
· Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 17 years
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Persecution begins
The third Simferopol "Hizb-ut-Tahrir" case
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Pre-trial Detention Centre №1 (SIZO-1) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russian Federation for the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol
Criminal case
The third Simferopol "Hizb-ut-Tahrir" case
Other defendants in the case
- Lenur Seidametov — Imprisoned, 13 years
Write a letter
Facility: Penal colony No. 17, Murmansk Oblast
Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
183035, Россия, г. Мурманск, ул. Угольная база, 9, ФКУ «ИК № 17 УФСИН России по Мурманской области», Ялкабов Тимур Муминович, 1980 г.р.
Details and sources
Full summary
On 17th of February, 2021, he was detained and taken into custody on charges of organizing the activities of a terrorist organization in connection with alleged involvement in the Islamist "Hizb-ut-Tahrir" party, which has nothing to do with terrorism. On 22nd of March 2022, he was sentenced to 17 years in a strict regime penal colony. In November of 2023, it came to light that Yalkabov was forced to shave his head in prison, after which they tried to force him to wash it under cold water in the sink. Prior to that, Yalkabov reported that after being transferred to a quarantine facility, his personal hygiene items began to disappear.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 205.5 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.