Emil Ziyadinov
Emil Ziyadinov, born 1984, Occupied territory of Republic of Crimea. Charges: Article 205.5 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Organizing the activities of a terrorist organization); Article 278 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Preparing for violent seizure of power or alteration of the constitutional order); “Emil Ziyadinov's case”. Sentence (April 18, 2022): 17 years' imprisonment in a strict regime penal colony. Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since July 8, 2020; place of detention: Penal colony No. 5, Arkhangelsk Oblast. Recognition: Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, July 1, 2021.
In brief
Occupied territory of Republic of Crimea · Oktyabrskoye settlement · Electricians · Terrorism cases, Cases against Hizb ut-Tahrir
Sentence
17 years
imprisonment in a strict regime penal colony
Upheld November 1, 2022
Charges
- Article 205.5 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Organizing the activities of a terrorist organization
- Article 278 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Preparing for violent seizure of power or alteration of the constitutional order
Full wording of the charges
Head of a cell of the international terrorist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami, carrying out anti-constitutional activities based on the doctrine of establishing a so-called "world caliphate", destroying the institutions of secular society and aimed at overthrowing the current authorities by force.
Latest event
December 1, 2025 — imprisonment begins
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, July 1, 2021
Timeline
· Imprisonment begins
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 17 years
· 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: 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
· Persecution begins
Emil Ziyadinov's case
Criminal case
Emil Ziyadinov's case
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Facility: Penal colony No. 5, Arkhangelsk Oblast
Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
165651, Архангельская область, г. Коряжма, Магистральное шоссе, 101, ФКУ «ИК № 5 УФСИН России по Архангельской области», Зиядинов Эмиль Исмаилович, 1984 г.р.
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Full summary
Detained on July 7, 2020 and taken into custody the following day on charges of organizing the activities of a terrorist organization. On April 19, 2022, sentenced to 17 years in a strict regime penal colony.
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