Two leaders of Ingush protests were transferred to the Pyatigorsk pre-trial detention center

The leaders of the Ingush protest against changing the borders with Chechnya, Zarifa Sautieva and Bagaudin Khautiev, were taken to the White Swan pre-trial detention center in Pyatigorsk. about this with reference to the lawyer Bilan Dzugaev. writes Fortanga

Ingush activists Akhmed Barakhoev, Musa Malsagov, Ismail Nalgiev, Zarifa Sautiyeva, Malsag Uzhakhov, Bagaudin Khautiev and Barakh Chemurziev are accused of organizing violence against government officials (part 2 of article 318 of the Criminal Code with application of part 3 of article 33 of the Criminal Code) at a rally in Magas in March 2019, as well as organizing and participating in an extremist community (Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code).

Fortanga specifies that closed preliminary hearings on the case of the protest leaders will begin on November 18.

• 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, 2019, about 10 thousand people came to the 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 .
• According to the Memorial human rights center, as of October 2020, 45 people were brought to justice in the wake of the rally in Magas, and criminal prosecution against 3 of them was discontinued. 26 defendants in the "Ingush case" were sentenced to terms ranging from one year and four months in a colony-settlement to one year and ten months in a general regime colony.