A rally participant in Ingushetia, who threw a chair in the National Guard, was sentenced to a real term and released in the courtroom

The Zheleznovodsk City Court of the Stavropol Territory sentenced to 11 months a colony of general regime of Isropil Nalgiev, who participated in the rally against changing the border between Ingushetia and Chechnya. This was reported by the human rights center "Memorial".

Nalgiev was found guilty of the use of violence in relation to a representative of the authorities (part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code). The prosecutor asked him to be sentenced to the year and three months of the colony.

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According to human rights activists, Nalgiev was released in the courtroom taking into account the time spent in jail. The rally participant partially pleaded guilty: he agreed that he threw a chair at the National Guard, but denies the political motive of the act. As an aggravating circumstances, the judge in the verdict indicated the motive of political enmity, the Memorial emphasizes.

In March 2019, protests were held in Magas due to an agreement on a new border with Chechnya, according to which Ingushetia lost part of the border territories. The security forces came to disperse the rally, in response, the protesters threw them with chairs and stones.

As a result, some of the demonstrators became defendants in cases of the use of violence, mass riots and an extremist community. Mediazona talked about this in detail.