The Bashkir oppositionist was transported from a colony to Kazan, where he was serving his sentence

Bashkir politician Airat Dilmukhametov, sentenced to nine years in prison under several articles, is being transferred to a colony located in the Trans-Baikal Territory. This is reported by "Echo of Moscow in Ufa" with reference to Dilmukhametov's relatives.

Dilmukhametov was serving a term in a strict regime colony No. 2 in Kazan. For what reason he was transferred to the Trans-Baikal Territory is unknown. Information, according to relatives, came from Novosibirsk.

“A few days ago, Dilmukhametov took part in a lawsuit against Ufa pensioner Ilmira Bikbayeva, who is suspected of financing extremist activities because of the transfer of six and a half thousand rubles to the politician’s mother,” writes Ekho Moskvy v Ufa.

The Memorial Human Rights Center considers Airat Dilmukhametov a political prisoner.

• On August 24, 2020, the Central District Court in Samara found Dilmukhametov guilty under articles on financing extremist activities (part 1 of article 282.3 of the Criminal Code), calls for it (part 1 of article 280 of the Criminal Code), on justifying terrorism (part 2 of art. 205.2 of the Criminal Code), as well as on two episodes under the article on calls for separatism (part 2 of article 280.1 of the Criminal Code). On December 4, Dilmukhametov tried to appeal the decision, but the Military Court of Appeal upheld the verdict. Dilmukhametov's lawyer, in a conversation with Ural.MBKh Media, added that a complaint was being prepared to the ECHR.
• The case of calls for separatism against Airat Dilmukhametov was initiated in October 2019: on the Echo of Moscow in Ufa radio, a year and a half earlier, he spoke about his intention to create the Fourth Bashkir Republic. against the oppositionist In April, a case was also opened under the article on calls for extremism (part 1 of article 280 of the Criminal Code) allegedly because of the statement about Chechens and under the article on calls for terrorism on the Internet (part 2 of article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) because video on YouTube about the defendants in the Ufa case of Hizb ut-Tahrir. In January 2020, was initiated another criminal case against Airat Dilmukhametov: under the article on the financing of extremist activities (part 1 of article 282.3 of the Criminal Code) due to the publication on VKontakte. The details of Dilmukhametov's mother's card were contained at the end of the post.
• In 2015, Dilmukhametov was sentenced to three years in a strict regime colony on charges of “publicly justifying terrorism” (part 1 of article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) for a religious and political treatise using verses from the Koran. He was released in 2017.
• In 2011, in connection with publications from 2008, Dilmukhametov was convicted on charges of public calls for extremist (Article 280 of the Criminal Code) and terrorist activities (Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code), as well as inciting ethnic hatred (Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code) . He spent two years in prison.