Hunger strikers in Ingushetia were detained and beaten

About fifty supporters of the human rights movement "Mekhk-Khel" went on a hunger strike on the evening of October 29 in the building of a trading house in the center of Nazran. They had one demand: the resignation of the leadership of Ingushetia.

The protesters were immediately detained by police. At the Nazran police department, some protesters were severely beaten, Mekhk-Khel coordinator Sarazhdin Sultygov, who is still in the department, told a PublicPost correspondent: “We at the police department are continuing the hunger strike. In Ingushetia, many people do not agree with the work of the head of the republic, Yunusbek Evkurov. executions continue, the monstrous facts of corruption remain uninvestigated. We collected a dossier on corruption in the republic and handed it over to the FSB in Ingushetia, but there was no reaction. Therefore, a few hours after the start of the hunger strike, almost 300 police officers surrounded the block where. "There was a building occupied by us. Without any accusation, they put everyone in cars and took them to the police department. During the arrest, the security forces used force on several of our members. Musa Abadziev was seriously injured - he had a severe wound on his head after being beaten, and doctors were not allowed to see him for a long time."

The detainees were kept in the department for about two hours, and then almost all were released, except for five who are still in the police department.

The public protest of hunger strikers was uncoordinated, and therefore its participants were detained, the press service of the Ingush Ministry of Internal Affairs told a PublicPost correspondent. An employee of the press service who did not introduce himself referred to the official website of the department, where the hunger strike was called a provocation. “Cases against those detained will be transferred to the magistrate’s court at the place where the offense was committed,” the release said .