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Komil Matiev
Construction workers
1980-09-04
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Kazan
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Biography
Resident of Kazan. On 14 March 2017, he was detained after a search and then arrested on charges of involvement in a terrorist organization in connection with alleged involvement in the Islamist party "Hizb ut-Tahrir", which is not related to terrorism.
A charge of incitement to hatred was added on 25 December and a charge of calling for terrorist activity was added on 8 January 2018.
On 5 February 2020, he was sentenced to 15 years in a strict-regime penal colony.
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