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Seitumerov Seitumer Shukrievich

Date of birth: June 28, 1988 (37 years old)
Article of the Criminal Code:  205.5 ч. 1 ; 278 (через ч. 1 ст. 30)
Form of repression:  deprivation of liberty
Pursuit stage:  currently serving a sentence
Sentence:  17 лет лишения свободы в колонии строгого режима, из них 3 года 6 месяцев в тюрьме, 1 год 6 месяцев ограничения свободы
Date of sentencing:  October 29, 2021
Current location:  Prison No. 2, Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for Vladimir Oblast

Seitumerov Seitumer Shukrievich, born June 28, 1988. Resident of Bakhchisarai in Crimea. Activist of "Crimean Solidarity". Citizen of Ukraine and the Russian Federation. Seitumer has a higher education in history, worked as a bricklayer. He is married and has a young child.

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 17 years in a strict regime penal colony with the first 3 years and 6 months to be served in prison and restriction of freedom for 1 year and 6 months under Part 1 of Article 205.5 of the Russian Criminal Code ("Organising 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.