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Shaimov Alfred Ideliyarovich

Date of birth: November 20, 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
Date of arrest:  January 1, 1
Sentence:  16 лет лишения свободы в колонии строгого режима, 1 год 6 месяцев ограничения свободы
Date of sentencing:  February 4, 2016
Current location:  Penal Сolony No. 1, Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for Chelyabinsk Oblast

Shaimov Alfred Ideliyarovich, born November 20, 1988, holds a higher professional education, is married, has a minor child born in 2013 in his care, worked at a plant in Chelyabinsk.

Convicted under Part 1 of Article 205.5 ("Organising activities of a terrorist organisation", for the period from November 14, 2013 to January 26, 2015), Part 1 of Article 30, Article 278 of the Russian Criminal Code ("Preparation for the violent seizure of power") and sentenced to 16 years' imprisonment in a strict regime penal colony, followed by restriction of freedom for a period of 1 year and 6 months.

Deprived of freedom since his arrest on October 1, 2014.