Lenar Ziyatdinov

He was detained and arrested in October 2016 together with eight other people on charges of participation in the activities of an extremist organisation, and his home was searched. Ziyatdinov admitted involvement in Tablighi Jamaat, but refused to admit that he participated in the activities of an extremist organisation. On 20 April 2017, he was sentenced to three and a half years in a penal colony. On 26 September, the court of appeal reduced the sentence to two and a half years