To bell out evil

The judge of the Leninsky district court of Ufa Oksana Ilalova fined the Bashkir activist Sagit Ismagilov for 320 thousand rubles, reports "Idel. Realities." He was found guilty under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (excitement of hatred or enmity).

Ismagilov was replaced by the publication in the spring of last year on the VKontakte social network in the Bashkir language of the author under the nickname of Ishbuldy әbeәlilbash, as well as photographs of a passage from the poem of the medieval Bulgarian poet Muhamedyar "Nura Sudur" ("Light of hearts"). The Tatars of the times of the Kazan Khanate are negatively described in it. The court found that in these texts, "the actions of the Tatars are characterized as aggressive, directed against the Bashkirs," and she "is unacceptable insulting."

Ismagilov said in court that the reposts were not made by him, but at the same time agreed with the content of one of them. The text refers to the dangers of the study of the history of the Bashkirs, inflicted by the closure of the Institute of Humanitarian Research in Bashkortostan. In addition, the defense and the accused indical himself are rude errors made for a psychological linguistic examination.

As Ismagilov noted, the poem of Muhamedyar is a literary monument, a historical source and is not subject to research on "extremism", about which there is a corresponding decision of the Constitutional Court.

Ismagilov called the case against him and the sentence is politically motivated. "This persecution began when on December 10, 2016 we held the Congress of the Bashkir people at Ufa. Then the leaders of the Bashkort organization were detained and I took over the chairmanship at this congress. The very next day we opened a criminal case against unidentified persons. In January of this year, I expressed support for the opening events of the Open Russia movement. After that, it was obvious against me. Therefore, it is obvious that it is obvious that it is obvious that it is obvious that it is obvious that it was obvious that it was obvious. The current sentence is an attempt by the authorities to remove me from active social activity, ”the activist said.