Ninth verdict in the Ingush “Bolotnaya case”: one year and four months in a colony-settlement

On January 23, the Zheleznovodsk City Court sentenced Magomed Ozdoev, a participant in a rally in Magas, to 16 months in a colony-settlement, MBKh Media reports , citing lawyer Hussein Galiev.

“The verdict was actually in the same wording as the accusation - the use of violence against three employees of the National Guard (part 1 of article 318 of the Criminal Code): he crushed someone with a bar, someone was kicked in the torso, someone was hit on the shield. That is, the judge did not comment on all our arguments, ”the lawyer quoted the publication as saying.

19:57 Taking into account the time spent in the pre-trial detention center, Ozdoev will be able to be released on February 20, 2020, the reports . Memorial Human Rights Center

• This is not the only sentence in the wake of the protests in Ingushetia. The Zheleznovodsk court has already issued eight sentences to the participants of the rally in Magas. In January, Khasan Zyazikov was sentenced to 13 months in a penal colony, 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). Timur Oziev was sentenced to 19 months in a colony-settlement, and Mustafa Vyshegurov was sentenced to 17 months in a colony-settlement. All 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 .