A participant in a rally in Magas was sentenced to a year and seven months in prison

The Zheleznovodsk city court sentenced Timur Oziev, a participant in a rally in Magas, to a year and 7 months in a colony-settlement. He was found guilty of using violence against a representative of the authorities (part 1 of article 318 of the Criminal Code). about this . writes The "Caucasian Knot"

According to the prosecution, during the protests in Magas in March 2019, Oziev “grabbed the shield of an employee of the Russian Guard, experiencing political enmity towards the leadership of the republic and acting under the influence of the authority of the rally organizers.”

“I committed this act without political hostility to the head of the republic and without the influence of the authority of anyone. I apologize to the victim and promise not to repeat the mistakes in the future,” the Caucasian Knot quotes Oziev’s last word.

A protester in Magas has been held in custody since April 2019. The judge counted one day in a pre-trial detention center for two days in a colony-settlement, Oziev should be released at the end of February 2019.

• This is not the only sentence in the wake of the protests in Ingushetia. The Zheleznovodsk court passed three sentences on the participants of the rally in Magas. Ramazan Gagiev On December 12, the court sentenced to 4 months in a colony-settlement. on December 13 Seit-Magomed Nalgiev was sentenced to one year and four months in a colony-settlement. On December 16, the court sentenced Zelimkhan Tomov to 17 months in a colony-settlement. All three criminal cases were considered in a special order.
• In connection with the rally in Magas, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on incitement to riots (part 3 of article 212 of the Criminal Code) and the use of life-threatening and health-threatening violence against law enforcement officers (part 2 of article 318 of the Criminal Code). In it, according to the Human Rights Center "Memorial", at least 35 defendants, at least 29 defendants are in custody.
• In September 2018, the authorities of Ingushetia and Chechnya signed an agreement to change the border between the republics, after which protests began in Ingushetia. On March 26, about 10,000 people came out to a rally in Magas. About two thousand protesters remained on the square all night. In the morning they began to be dispersed, as a result of which clashes broke out between the security forces and the protesters .