Artyk Kalbaev

Resident of Moscow. Detained and taken into custody on 19 February 2020 on charges of involvement in the activities of an extremist organisation in connection with involvement in the activities of the Islamic movement Tablighi Jamaat. His adherents are persecuted solely because of their religious activities. On 7 July 2021, Kalbayev was sentenced to six years in a general regime colony. He was allegedly released in April 2025, after which he was detained and later apparently deported.