Ilnar Zyalilov
Ilnar Zyalilov, born 1980, Tatarstan. Charges: Article 205.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Assisting in terrorist activities); Article 205.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Assisting to or financing terrorist activities through an official position); Article 205.5 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Organizing the activities of a terrorist organization); “The case of "Hizb ut-Tahrir" in Kazan”. Sentence (February 4, 2020): 22 years' imprisonment in a special security penal colony. Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since March 15, 2017; place of detention: Penal colony No. 13, Saratov Oblast. Recognition: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, July 17, 2019; Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, July 8, 2019.
In brief
Tatarstan · Kazan · Unemployed · Terrorism cases, Extremism cases, Cases against Hizb ut-Tahrir
Sentence
22 years
imprisonment in a special security penal colony
Upheld May 30, 2021
Charges
- Article 205.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Assisting in terrorist activities
- Article 205.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Assisting to or financing terrorist activities through an official position
- Article 205.5 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Organizing the activities of a terrorist organization
- Article 282 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Incitement of hatred or enmity
Full wording of the charges
Participated in organizing the activities of a cell, held secret meetings, collected membership fees, publicly called for terrorist activities, and incited hatred by republishing statements by Ali Charinsky regarding the unjust designation of 'Hizb ut-Tahrir' as a terrorist organization and the unfounded fabrication of criminal cases.
Latest event
May 30, 2021 — appeal
The court upheld the verdict.
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, July 17, 2019
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, July 8, 2019
Timeline
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 22 years
· Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion
Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners
· Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Pre-trial Detention Centre №2 (SIZO-2) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Tatarstan
· Persecution begins
The case of "Hizb ut-Tahrir" in Kazan
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
Criminal case
The case of "Hizb ut-Tahrir" in Kazan
Other defendants in the case
- Ruslan Gabidullin — Imprisoned, 19 years
- Azat Gataullin — Imprisoned, 19 years
- Sergey Derzhipilsky — Imprisoned, 16 years
- Farid Kryev — Imprisoned, 15 years
- Komil Matiev — Imprisoned, 15 years
- Abdukahor Muminjanov — Imprisoned, 17 years
- Zulfat Sabirzyanov — Imprisoned, 15 years
- Rustem Salakhutdinov — Imprisoned, 14 years
- Ilnaz Safiullin — Imprisoned, 11 years
Thematic group: Kazan case of Hizb ut-Tahrir
Write a letter
Facility: Penal colony No. 13, Saratov Oblast
Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
413116, Саратовская обл., г. Энгельс, проезд Функциональный, 8, ФКУ «ИК № 13 УФСИН России по Саратовской области», Зялилов Ильнар Ильясович, 1980 г.р.
Details and sources
Full 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.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
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