The court rejected the appeal of the Ingush activist despite the testimony of witnesses

The lawyer of the Ingush activist Zarifa Sautiyeva said that the materials of the case against his client contain records of interrogations of five secret witnesses, whose testimony does not coincide with the version of the investigation. This is reported by "Caucasian Knot".

On March 25, the Stavropol Regional Court dismissed an appeal against the arrest of Sautiyeva, accused of organizing the use of violence at a rally in Magas on March 26-27, 2019. The complaint filed by the defense states that the investigation presented the testimony of secret witnesses, which do not substantiate Sautiyeva's involvement in the crime. One of the witnesses admitted that he had not seen Sautiyeva at the rally in Magas.

Also at the meeting, Sautiyeva said that she was afraid of contracting the coronavirus in the pre-trial detention center. “She behaved well, she feels fine, but she expressed concern that if the coronavirus enters the pre-trial detention center, then there are no means of combating it,” her lawyer conveys the words of Sautiyeva.

Earlier, the Essentuki City Court extended Sautiyeva's arrest until June 11.

• 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 .
• 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. According to the Human Rights Center "Memorial", there are more than 40 defendants in it. Most were accused of using violence against government officials and reclassified to the part of non-dangerous violence (part 1 of article 318 of the Criminal Code), more than 20 people were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment in a colony-settlement. Sautiyeva and seven other people were accused of organizing the use of dangerous violence against government officials (part 2 of article 318 of the Criminal Code with the use of part 3 of article 33 of the Criminal Code), as well as of involvement in the activities of an extremist community.