The court sentenced another participant in the rally in Magas: a year and a month in a colony-settlement

The Zheleznovodsk city court sentenced Khasan Zyazikov, a participant in a rally in Magas, on January 17, to one year and one month in a colony-settlement, . Kavkazsky Uzel reports

Zyazikov was arrested in July 2019 by a court decision in Nalchik on charges of using dangerous violence against a government official (Part 2 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code). Then the investigation reclassified the accusation to the use of violence not associated with a threat to health (part 1 of article 318 of the Criminal Code). The days spent in the pre-trial detention center were credited to him in the ratio of a day in the pre-trial detention center for two days in the colony, so he will be released in the first half of February.

According to the prosecution, Zyazikov, out of a sense of “political enmity,” threw a stone at a National Guard officer and hit him in the right leg. Zyazikov admitted that he threw the stone because he was trying to protect the elderly on Magas Square, repented of this, but rejected the political intent of his actions.

Zyazikov's lawyer Anzor Polonkoev asked for a non-custodial sentence, since his family was in distress: his wife was on maternity leave, two activist brothers who helped them died, other brothers, a watchman at the school and a driver, had a small income, Kavkazsky reports. Node".

On February 8, Khasan Zyazikov was released from the Pyatigorsk pre-trial detention center on February 7, reports . the Caucasian Knot

“It seems to us that Hassan spent more time than he was supposed to. Really it was impossible to tell the exact time of release. We need to arrive early. We cannot be on duty at the doors of the pre-trial detention center for days. And he himself would not have reached home - he has neither clothes nor money, ”Zyazikov’s brother told the publication.

• In June 2019, the Magas City Court fined Zyazikov 20,000 rubles under the article on participation in an unauthorized rally (Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).
• This is not the only sentence in the wake of the protests in Ingushetia. The Zheleznovodsk court issued seven sentences to the participants of the rally in Magas. In December, the cases of Ramazan Gagiev ( 4 months in a colony-settlement), Seit-Magomed Nalgiev ( 16 months in a colony-settlement), Zelimkhan Tomov ( 17 months in a colony-settlement), Eliskhan Azhigov ( 17 months in a colony), Mussa Pliev ( 18 months in a colony-settlement). These cases were considered in a special order. Timur Oziev was sentenced to 19 months in a colony-settlement, and Mustafa Vyshegurov was sentenced to 17 months in a colony-settlement.
• 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 .