Human rights activist Ilmir Imaev, accused of extremism, was transferred to a tuberculosis clinic

64-year-old Ilmir Imaev , who was sentenced in 2014 to three and a half years in prison for participating in a motor rally in Kazan with the flags of the Hizb ut-Tahrir movement banned in Russia, was transferred from correctional colony No. 5 to a tuberculosis dispensary in Barnaul. about this Writes "Idel. Realities".

According to his wife, Ravili Imayeva, her husband was to be released from the colony on July 21. Earlier, Ilmir Imaev’s relatives reported bullying in IK-5: on December 24, 2016, Imaev’s relatives learned that he was in a punishment cell, and that the colony administration wanted to send him to medical correctional institution No. 1 in the Altai Territory.

Prior to imprisonment, Imaev regularly participated in public events, and also covered the trials of wrongfully persecuted Muslims. Experts from the SOVA Center noted that "the flag with the shahada in itself does not degrade anyone's dignity and does not incite hatred towards anyone," as well as protests against the persecution of Muslims. According to Sova's suggestion, the court considered an open appeal to Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov to be a deliberately false denunciation of the crime, in which Imaev was also accused, which, according to the organization, is "obvious abuse."