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Petersburg: An exhibition dedicated to the Ingush protest was opened
In St. Petersburg, an exhibition dedicated to the seven leaders of the Ingush protest, recognized by the “ memorial ” by political prisoners, was opened in St. Petersburg: this is the chairman of the Tapes Council of Ingushetia Malsag Malsag, a businessman, public figure Akhmed Barakhoev, economist of Chestrziev, the head of the Ingush branch of the Red Cross of Musa Musagov, a historian, an employee Museum-memorial to the victims of the repression of Zarif Sautiev, lawyer, youth leader of Ingushetia Bagaudin Khautiev and founder and head of the public organization The choice of Ingushetia Ismail Nalgiev. They were arrested after the Ingush protests of 2018-2019 against the establishment of the border with Chechnya. The exhibition presents their portraits and photos, letters written by St. Petersburg activists from the pre -trial detention center, drawings of prisoners, photos of pickets in their support, t -shirts with images of the Ingush political prisoners.
The “Network” case, the case of “New Greatness”, the case of Yuri Dmitriev, Konstantin Kotov caused a huge resonance in society, and the Ingush process remained in the shade, although its participants are also citizens of Russia. It is impossible to allow this process to leave the agenda in our society, ”one of the organizers of the exhibition, activist Elena Vilenskaya.
Civil activist Khava Khazbieva believes that the leaders of the Ingush protest are not judged for protest, but for political reasons.
"Unrest is just a pretext for the trial. There is not a single evidence that they applied violence to representatives of the authorities, they are attracted to public activity previously shown. And the accusation of participation in the extremist community is such an investigative appendix, so that there is a difficult article on which you can condemn for thoughts," said the lawyer Andrei Sabinin, which defends the website, which protects. Ismail Nalgiev and Musa Malsagov.
Lawyers and human rights activists are alarmed by the fact that the case will not obey Ingushetia, but in Kislovodsk. Residents of the republic will not be able to support the defendants.
- On September 26, 2018, the head of Ingushetia Yunus Bek Evkurov and the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov signed an agreement on consolidating the border between Ingushetia and Chechnya, as a result of which the lands and the Ingush consider their own to Chechnya. The Ingush public outraged the unequal, in her opinion, the exchange of lands that negotiations on the borders went secretly.
- The Constitutional Court of Ingushetia recognized the agreement on the borders that did not correspond to the Constitution, but later the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation disavowed this decision.
- In October 2018, many thousands of protests began in Magas, resuming in March 2019. The rally was declared unlimited. After the Ingush riot police refused to disperse the rally participants, units of the Rogvard from other regions arrived in Ingushetia. On March 27, the rally was dispersed, the protest leaders were arrested.