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Zyalilov Ilnar Ilyasovich

Date of birth: September 27, 1980 (45 years old)
Article of the Criminal Code:  205.5 ч. 1 ; 205.1 ч. 1 ; 205.2 ч. 2
Form of repression:  deprivation of liberty
Pursuit stage:  currently serving a sentence
Sentence:  22 года лишения свободы в колонии особого режима, 1 год ограничения свободы
Date of sentencing:  February 5, 2020
Current location:  Penal Colony No. 13, Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for Saratov Oblast

Zyalilov Ilnar Ilyasovich, born September 27, 1980 in Kazan, lived there. Married, has two children, is not officially employed, and has a secondary specialised education.

Since 2007, he has been subject to criminal and administrative liability in connection with his involvement in the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir. In 2009, he was sentenced to 5 years' imprisonment in a case in which Article 278 of the Russian Criminal Code (Violent seizure of power) was applied for the first time against alleged members of Hizb ut-Tahrir. In 2015, he was sentenced to 2 years' probation under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Russian Criminal Code ("Incitement of hatred or enmity) for disseminating the ideas of Hizb ut-Tahrir on the Internet. In 2014, he was fined 2,000 rubles under Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences (Demonstration of symbols of a banned organisation") for placing flags and stickers with the shahada (the symbol of the Islamic faith in Arabic) on his car. Sentenced under Part 1 of Article 205.5 ("Organising activities of a terrorist organisation"), Part 1 of Article 205.1 (Assistance to terrorist activity), Part 2 of Article 205.2 (Public calls for terrorist activity, public justification of terrorism or propaganda of terrorism using the Internet") of the Russian Criminal Code to 22 years in a special regime penal colony.

In custody since 14 March 2017.