A fifth criminal case was opened against Bashkir oppositionist Airat Dilmukhametov

The FSB department for Bashkortostan opened a new criminal case against Bashkir oppositionist Airat Dilmukhametov under the article on “financing extremist activities” (Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by Idel. Realities" with reference to lawyer Alexey Zakharov.

According to the decision to initiate the case, the reason was a publication on VKontakte with a call to the “Bashkir political nation” to fight for “freedom, justice and equality” and the republic. At the end of the post there were details of Dilmukhametov’s mother’s card.

In this and a number of other publications indicating the card details, the FSB sees the collection of money for the preparation of an extremist crime, by which they mean public calls “to carry out actions aimed at violating the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation, through the formation of the Bashkir Republic - the state of the Bashkirs as a separate state from Russia.” .

The resolution also provides excerpts from a psychological and linguistic examination: “Having carried out a number of manipulations and suggestive influences on the reader’s psyche, creating fear for the future in him, the author offers an effective, from his point of view, way to solve the problem - pay money and be sure that he, Airat Dilmukhametov, will solve all problems by becoming the President of the Republic of Bashkortostan.”

Since March 2019, Dilmukhametov has been in a pre-trial detention center in connection with a criminal case about calls for separatism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 280.1 of the Criminal Code): because of a video message about his plans as president of the “Fourth Bashkir Republic”

• In October 2019, another case was opened against the Bashkir Dilmukhametov on calls for separatism: on the radio “Echo of Moscow in Ufa” a year and a half earlier, he spoke about his intention to create a “Fourth Bashkir Republic”
• In April, a case was also opened against him for calls for extremism (Part 1 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code) allegedly because of statements about Chechens and calls for terrorism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) because of a video on YouTube about the defendants Ufa case of Hizb ut-Tahrir.
• In 2015, Dilmukhametov was sentenced to three years in a maximum security colony on charges of “public justification of terrorism” (Part 1 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) for an article - a religious and political treatise using verses of the Koran. He was released in 2017.
• In 2011, in connection with publications from 2008, Dilmukhametov was convicted of public calls for extremist (Article 280 of the Criminal Code) and terrorist activities (Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code), as well as for inciting ethnic hatred (Part 1,282 of the Criminal Code). He spent two years in prison.