“The pain was hellish”: a candidate for the post of head of Bashkortostan for a trip to the FSB instead

On June 28 and 29 in Ufa, the fifth World Kurultai Bashkir was held in Ufa. A human rights activist, candidate for the post of head of the Republic of Bashkortostan Ramil Saitova also wanted to visit the congress - but it did not work out. The security forces were detained at the house and taken to the FSB building. From there, she went to the hospital. OVD-Info recorded Saitova’s monologue about how she was detained and why.

Last week on Friday and Saturday, the fifth Congress of the World Kurultai Bashkirs took place on Saturday. This event was organized by the administration of the head of the Republic of Bashkortostan. And not in the interests of people, but to realize the goals that the acting [head of the republic] Khabirov. Since we have the most active electorate of the republic - Bashkirs, then, I think, in this way he decided to enlist their support. In fact, it is election campaign [for Khabirova].

Delegates to Kurultay were elected by districts. And they took all measures so that officials or state employees were elected in their places. But not everywhere it happened as they wanted. Real representatives of the public also got there. When they saw this, it was too late. Therefore, they began to stupidly delete them from the lists [delegates]. Here is the level of such an administration of the chapter. Also, delegates from abroad were not allowed there.

On the first day of the congress, representatives of the Bashkurt public organization still fell. But the head of this association, Fail Alsynov, was detained at the entrance. Then the police detained the member of the Bashkort Ilmira Mukhamayarov, when he said in the hall that the delegates were not allowed to the congress.

I was not invited to Kurultai, and I knowingly knew that if I came there, then they would get me out of there. I looked on the Internet, saw what happened to Alsynov and Mukhameyarov. On the first day, I did not have time to come, so I decided to visit the second day of the congress, which took place at [Mountain] Toratau.

Before that, I announced [in my VKontakte page], which I propose to collect the Bashkir clan council in this event to determine the procedure for nominating candidates in the municipal elections.

On Saturday at 7:30 in the morning they began to knock on the door. No one introduced himself, so I did not open. Knocking at the door repeated twice before my left home. Well, I'm used to this - this is our norm.

Somewhere at an hour [local time] I posted on my page an announcement that I was leaving for Toratau Yiyyny and I would be to the right of the entrance to the event. To be found by those who saw the announcement of the collection of advice.

I left the house. It turned out that near the entrance I am waiting for five law enforcement officers in two cars. They immediately approached me and offered to drive with them to the FSB. They presented the summons, supposedly I pass a witness in a criminal case. By which - they did not say to me.

I wrote on the agenda that the Code of Criminal Procedure provides for labor and rest. Today is Saturday, day off. I can't come. I will appear on the first working day - on Monday, at the same time. She took a picture of the agenda and published on her page, because people were waiting for me there on Kurultai. But I already understood that it was unlikely that I would get there.

After I said that I would not go, law enforcement officers grabbed me and dragged me into the car. I told them that I have the status of a nominated candidate for the post of head of the Republic of Bashkortostan protected by law. They answered - we know.

They began to stuff me into the car, put pressure on my head. At that moment, I thought that they damaged me a neck vertebra. Then they drove me around the city for a long time and eventually brought me to the FSB building. I told them: “I have something with a neck. You could damage it for me. Please call an ambulance, because you must first determine my condition. I can’t move, you understand that such a possible trauma to the spine is. ”

Hearing this, they reacted directly by the opposite. I was seized, pulled out of the car. And dragged by the shoulders. The pain was hellish. For some reason, I hung on the skin of my shoulders-when these two employees dragged me.

I think that if I hadn't screamed, I would have lost consciousness. Because when here is such acute pain, she should come out with a cry. I screamed so that it stops and to draw attention to what was happening. Imagine the degree of my indignation and anger.

This moment was photographed by Bashkurt activists, who were detained on the second day of Kurultay. They placed all this on VKontakte.

Meanwhile, I was covered with the FSB building and they abruptly threw me on the floor. Then they did not dare to drag me, apparently, because there was a video shooting. I said that I would not get up, because my spine can be damaged. I demanded a doctor again. They refused to me, they said “Come on to the investigator”, they almost dripped their feet - it turned out that I was lying on the aisle.

The worst. Apparently, some boss came out. Specifically, I didn’t see, because I lay and cried, closing my face. This man began to resent the noise, and then said: “If she does not want to get up, then let him lie until 18 hours, lying around. And at 18:00 by the hands, by the legs - and throw it onto the lawn away from the FSB. ”

I could not get out of there. They told me that when they brought me there, and in order to cover the tracks and this noise, they wanted to take me to a psychiatrist. And there they can, for example, fly their mouths with tape. To put on a nationwide shirt. Pack and take away where you will not leave where you later. But the publicity saved me. The fact that there was a video and there were Bashkorters. The fact that my colleague then drove up to the FSB and controlled the process.

After some time, they still called an ambulance. The doctor assessed the situation and I was taken to the emergency room. I made an X -ray. It was found that I have the instability of the cervical vertebrae and stretching of the ligaments of the cervical vertebra. Then they recorded the neck with a bus, and my colleague took me home, because for medical indications it was impossible to interrogate me.

Since that time, none of the law enforcement agencies had anymore, and they did not call me for interrogation. I believe that my detention is a continuation of the policy that was applied on the first day of Kurultay. They wanted to prevent anyone who can express their opinion. Only those people whose performances were agreed in advance at the congress.