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Miftakhov Azat Fanisovich

Date of birth: March 22, 1993 (33 years old)
City of residence: Moscow
Occupation: наука; студенчество
Article of the Criminal Code:  205.2 ч. 1
Form of repression:  deprivation of liberty
Pursuit stage:  currently serving a sentence
Sentence:  4 года лишения свободы в колонии строгого режима, из них 2 года 6 месяцев в тюрьме
Date of sentencing:  March 28, 2024
Current location:  Penal Сolony No. 18, Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Lists of persecuted:  General list

Miftakhov Azat Fanisovich, born March 22, 1993, lived in Moscow, postgraduate student of the Mechanics and Mathematics Department of Moscow State University, anarchist.

On January 18, 2021, he was sentenced to 6 years in a general regime penal colony under Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Hooliganism by a group of persons by prior conspiracy"). On September 4, 2023, he served his sentence, but upon leaving the penal colony, he was detained and sent to custody on a new case. On March 28, 2024, he was sentenced under Part 1 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Public justification of terrorism") to 4 years of imprisonment with the first 2 years and 6 months to be served in prison.

Deprived of liberty since February 1, 2019.

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