the harassment of national minorities and political prisoners: in march 2017 azamat abutalipov, aivar khabibullin, airat ibragimov, timur munasypov and shamil khusnitdinov were sentenced at ufa's october district court to suspended sentences under article 282.2 of the russian federation (organisation of the activity of an extremist organisation). in june of that year the supreme court of bashkortostan quashed the suspended sentences. in the judgment handed down in june 2017 in ufa there is no evidence that those convicted were involved in acts of violence or in any other activity that would have violated human or civic rights. memorial human rights center had considered that the criminal prosecution of five muslims from bashkortostan is directly related to their religious beliefs and violates their right to freedom of conscience..