Ilnar Zyalilov
- Criminal Code
- Article 205.1 part 1, Russian Criminal CodeArticle 205.1 part 2, Russian Criminal CodeArticle 205.5 part 1, Russian Criminal CodeArticle 282 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
- Case category
- Terrorism casesExtremism casesCases against Hizb ut-Tahrir
- Verdict
- Imprisonment (strict regime)
- Sentence
- 22 years
- Date of verdict
- 2020-02-04
- Region
- Tatarstan
- City
- Kazan
- Facility
- ФКУ «ИК № 13 УФСИН России по Саратовской области»
- Address for letters
- 413116, Саратовская обл., г. Энгельс, проезд Функциональный, 8, ФКУ «ИК № 13 УФСИН России по Саратовской области», Зялилов Ильнар Ильясович, 1980 г.р.
Case summary
Resident of Kazan. Since 2007, he has been brought to criminal and administrative responsibility concerning his involvement in Hizb ut-Tahrir. In 2009, he was sentenced to five years' imprisonment in a case in which Article 278 of the Criminal Code (Forcible seizure of power) was first applied against alleged members of Hizb ut-Tahrir. In 2015, he was sentenced to a two-year suspended sentence under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (incitement to hatred or enmity) for disseminating Hizb ut-Tahrir ideas on the Internet. In 2014, he was fined 2,000 rubles under part 1 of article 20.3 of the Administrative Code (demonstration of symbols of a banned organisation) for placing flags and stickers with the shahada (a symbol of the Islamic faith in Arabic) on his car.
On 14 March 2017, he was detained after a search and then arrested on charges of organising the activities of a terrorist organisation, again for alleged involvement with Hizb ut-Tahrir, which has no connection to terrorism.
To these charges, a charge of incitement to hatred was added on 25 December, and a charge of calling for terrorist activity was added on 8 January 2018.
On 5 February 2020, he was sentenced to 22 years in a special regime colony.
Others charged under Article 205.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
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