Stage 2 details (arrest/ detention/ extradition):

He was arrested in March 2017 by Russian authorities who accused him of breaking immigration laws (Socialist Alternative, 2018).

After his passport was stolen in 2012 and he was left without necessary documentation, Feruz had repeatedly tried to claim asylum in Russia and had appealed the Russian immigration authorities’ decision not to grant him refugee status (Amnesty International, 2018). On 16^th March 2017, Feruz was detained by police and wrongly accused of violating Russia’s immigration rules (Amnesty International, 2017b). At this point, his application for temporary asylum in Russia was still under review, so he was released and legally living in Russia until the decision was made and appeal options exhausted (Amnesty International, 2017b). Feruz learned that his asylum application had been declined and his later appeal was refused, which he only found out about when he was arrested and detained in Russia on the 1^st August 2017 (Amnesty International, 2017b). He was told by a judge at Moscow’s Basmanniy Court that he should be deported to Uzbekistan because he had been living in the country illegally (Wilford, 2017). On the 2^nd February 2018 a court decision in Moscow determined that Feruz was able to leave Russian for a third country (Amnesty International, 2018).