The Ishimbay City Court of Bashkortostan dismissed the case of Venera Kinzyabaeva, who was detained at a protest against deforestation on the Kushtau Shikhan. This was reported by Ural. MBH Media".

The case of disobedience to the demands of police officers (Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) was dismissed due to the lack of corpus delicti. Witnesses at the meeting were police officers, whose testimony, according to Elza Maulimshina, a member of the Human Rights Council under the head of Bashkortostan, contradicted each other. One policeman spoke about illegal video recording, the second - that there was no video recording, but Kinzabaev climbed into the windows of the police car and interfered with work.

The hearings on the cases of other detainees in Kushtau, Ruslan Nurtdinov and Bayras Gabidullin, were postponed, the activists themselves were released - protocols on them were drawn up without the sanction of the prosecutor's office.

Shikhan Kushtau is a small mountain in the Ishimbay region of Bashkortostan. Local activists have been fighting for several months against deforestation for the development of soda and limestone deposits in the territory of Kushtau. Starting in August, work in the protected natural area resumed . On August 6, about 10 activists protesting against logging were detained in Kushtau.
Activists advocate the preservation of natural monuments, the remaining shikhans of Toratau, Kushtau, Yuraktau. The previously existing shihan of Shakhtau was completely destroyed to obtain raw materials by the Bashkir Soda Company.

In Bashkiria, the court dismissed the case of a protester against deforestation on the Kushtau Shikhan