Participants in protests against changes in the borders of Ingushetia were sentenced to almost two years

The Zheleznovodsk City Court of the Stavropol Territory announced the sentences for the protesters in Magas. Aslan Aushev and Bagautdin Myakiev were found guilty of using violence against police officers (part 1 of article 318 of the Criminal Code). about this with reference to lawyers Kazim Atabiev and Magomed Aushev. writes MBKh Media

Aushev was sentenced to a year and eight months in a colony-settlement, Myakiev - in the form of a year and ten months in a colony-settlement.

• In July 2019, lawyer Bagautdina Myakieva spoke about the beating of his client in a pre-trial detention center.
• Aslan Aushev was detained on May 16, 2019, when he appeared at the local police department on a summons in connection with an administrative case. He was taken to court, allegedly for a hearing on the case of a fine for a rally on March 26 in Magas. From the court, Aushev called his relatives and said that he was being taken to Nalchik as a suspect under Part 2 of Art. 318 of the Criminal Code (violence against a police officer, dangerous to life and health).
• The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on incitement to mass 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) immediately after the March protests in Magas in 2019. 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 .