"Supervision for three years and weekly visits to the police." The blogger Parvina Abuzarova from Kazan, convicted for an anti-war post, has been released.

      Entrepreneur and blogger from Kazan, Parvina Abuzarova, sentenced to three years in a penal colony for an anti-war post, has been released. "Idel.Realii" found out that before her release, the court imposed a three-year administrative supervision on her and required her to report to the police department every week. As "Idel.Realii" learned, blogger, clothing designer for Muslim women, and political prisoner Parvina Abuzarova (full name - Parvinakhan) has been released. This was reported to one of the activists by the penal colony. In response to a letter addressed to Abuzarova, the administration of the institution replied that "the addressee has been released." The 33-year-old blogger was serving her sentence in IK No. 5 near Mozhaysk (Moscow region). This institution cannot be called ordinary. It began operations more than 75 years ago based on a prisoner-of-war camp. Until mid-1953, only mothers with children were held in the colony. In recent years, the capacity limit of the IK has been just over a thousand places. There is a children's home with 85 places at the colony. Parvina Abuzarova has two young children; however, according to "Idel.Realii," they lived with her ex-husband even before her arrest. In the colony, the blogger was repeatedly reprimanded and sent to a punishment cell, "Idel.Realii" found out. Abuzarova was recognized as a "malicious violator" by the administration of IK-5 at least in the last months before her release. Previously, there was no public announcement about Abuzarova's release. "Idel.Realii" learned about this by discovering a decision from the Mozhaysk city court dated November 21 of last year. The document revealed that as early as October 2025, the administration of the colony filed a lawsuit with the court to establish administrative supervision over Abuzarova. The published decision states that the IK administration submits a request to the court to establish supervision "no later than two months before the expiration of the sentence served by the convict." The Mozhaysk city court established a three-year administrative supervision over Parvina Abuzarova. She was required to report to the police four times a month, prohibited from attending mass events, and restricted from being outside her home from 11 PM to 6 AM. "An example of how a Muslim woman can run a business" Just a few years ago, it was extremely difficult to imagine Parvina Abuzarova in a penal colony. A successful blogger (with over 80,000 followers on Instagram), her own clothing brand, and a store in the center of Kazan. Abuzarova's name was even mentioned in a scientific article by the Center for Islamic Studies of the Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan about women's Muslim activism in the republic in 2021. The publication stated that "before the birth of her second child," the girl "actively engaged in her clothing brand Parvini one, which started as sportswear for Muslim women," and then began to develop "the theme of investments" and launched "a culinary studio project." "Parvina does not emphasize the religious component in her projects; her activities are an example of how a Muslim woman can run a business and various projects aimed at a wide audience," the publication stated. A few years ago, Abuzarova also launched a school for studying the Arabic language and the Quran for women. At the opening, she said that "knowledge is very important for a believer," and added, "we must strive for knowledge, study the Quran, and learn languages." In a robe and slippers — for interrogation and in court The measured and understandable life of Parvina Abuzarova was interrupted in the winter of 2023. Early in the morning on February 14, FSB officers came to her with a search warrant. The girl recounted that about ten operatives "burst into" her apartment "under the pretext that I was heating my neighbors." According to Abuzarova, they did not show identification and "shoved under her nose" some document stating that a criminal case had been initiated against her. "I urgently asked them to leave so that I could at least change out of my pajamas and wash up! But the pressure was astonishing," the blogger wrote. She also complained that she was not allowed to call a lawyer and her phone was confiscated. After the search, Abuzarova was taken for interrogation — there the investigator informed her that she could be imprisoned for posts supporting Ukraine. "As I understood, I am suspected of terrorism! In what way do I resemble a terrorist to be treated like this?" Abuzarova later commented. After the search, the girl deleted the post about the actions of the security forces and later published a new one, in which she called Russia a "great empire." Abuzarova also changed her place of residence. After that, she was declared wanted at the federal level, and at the end of March 2023, she was detained again and brought directly in a robe and slippers first for interrogation and then to the Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan. The FSB stated that Abuzarova had previously been "obliged to appear at the investigator's summons, but she refused and was absent at her registered address." In court, during the selection of a preventive measure, the prosecutor first revealed what exactly the girl was suspected of. According to the investigation, Abuzarova called for actions "aimed against the security of the Russian Federation" on the internet, specifically publishing a post condemning the war against Ukraine and urging users to engage in illegal activities. The FSB clarified in its press release that it was about "public calls for the desertion of Russian servicemen." Parvina Abuzarova did not plead guilty. Moreover, she read a petition for bringing criminal charges against the operatives who conducted the search in her apartment and for compensation from the FSB in the amount of 15 million rubles for moral, physical, and material harm. The court did not place the girl in pre-trial detention and sent her under house arrest. "Calls on social media users not to go to the combat zone" A few months later — in July 2023 — the criminal case under Part 2 of Article 280.4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Public calls for activities aimed against the security of the state") was submitted to the Novo-Savinovsky District Court of Kazan. In August, the trial began. Several court hearings were held in the case. On September 11, Judge Maxim Kramov announced the verdict — three years in a general regime penal colony. Parvina Abuzarova did not plead guilty. At the same time, Article 280.4, which appeared in the Russian Criminal Code after the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, provides for a milder punishment — a fine of up to one million rubles. Parvina Abuzarova and her defense tried to appeal the verdict. In the appellate complaint, the lawyer stated that the blogger "did not pursue the goal of undermining the security of the Russian Federation." The defender explained this by stating that Abuzarova "has no criminal record, is not registered anywhere, has a job, young children, and is an active Muslim woman preaching Islam." "All of Abuzarova's actions were aimed solely at achieving peace," the lawyer wrote in the appellate complaint and requested an acquittal. At the same time, the state prosecutor also submitted his appellate submission. He requested that Parvina Abuzarova be additionally punished by depriving her of the right to engage in activities related to website administration for four years. The Supreme Court of Tatarstan partially agreed with the position of the prosecutor's office and prohibited Abuzarova from administering websites for one year after her release. Only after the publication of the appellate ruling of the Supreme Court of Tatarstan did it become known what exactly was charged against Abuzarova. It turned out that on November 13, 2022, the girl published the following post on her Instagram page: "The war in Ukraine is a dirty disgusting plan of the devil, and nothing good can come from this war. Except for the horse-Chechen-Arab business. If you read this message, please do not send your husbands and sons to this war! Study everything you sign!" (spelling and punctuation preserved). The prosecution attempted to prove Abuzarova's guilt through witnesses. One of them stated that after viewing the girl's post, he realized that the blogger "negatively relates to the conduct of the special military operation or the special military operation that the authorities of Russia are obliged to call the full-scale invasion of Ukraine on the territory of Ukraine, and also calls on social media users not to go to the combat zone." Two other witnesses testified that "after the specified publication, they stopped watching" Abuzarova's posts, "since their views on the topic of conducting the special military operation do not coincide." In turn, a linguistic expert concluded that Parvina Abuzarova's post contained "calls for non-appearance for military service for the purpose of evading it," and "the addressees are all internet users, as well as relatives of servicemen (wives and mothers) and directly servicemen." "The publication may encourage actions such as desertion, evasion of military service, as well as non-appearance for military service in order to protect the interests of the Russian Federation and its citizens, maintaining international peace and security," the expert stated. Where Parvina Abuzarova has