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Seitmemetov Rustem Abduramanovich

Date of birth: March 28, 1973 (53 years old)
Article of the Criminal Code:  205.5 ч. 2 ; 278 (через ч. 1 ст. 30)
Form of repression:  deprivation of liberty
Pursuit stage:  currently serving a sentence
Sentence:  13 лет лишения свободы в колонии строгого режима, из них 3 года 6 месяцев в тюрьме, 1 год ограничения свободы
Date of sentencing:  October 29, 2021
Current location:  Penal Colony No. 16, Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Republic of Bashkortostan

Seitmemetov Rustem Abduramanovich, born March 28, 1973. Resident of Bakhchisarai in Crimea. Citizen of Ukraine and the Russian Federation. He has a higher pedagogical education, worked as a builder. Rustem is married and has two young children.

On charges of membership in the banned organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami, which, even according to the investigation, did not participate in violent actions, was sentenced to 13 years in a strict regime penal colony with the first 3 years and 6 months to be served in prison and to restriction of freedom for 1 year upon release under Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Russian Criminal Code ("Participation in the activities of a terrorist organisation") and Part 1 of Article 30 in conjunction with Article 278 of the Russian Criminal Code ("Preparation for the violent seizure of power").

In custody since March 11, 2020.