The court allowed visits to the defendants in the Ingush “Bolotnaya case” who are being held in pre-trial detention center

The defense of the defendants in the case of the protests in Magas obtained permission from the Essentuki City Court to visit relatives. reports . Fortanga The publication does not provide a complete list of defendants who have obtained permission. Probably, we are talking about the defendants in the Ingush “bolotnaya case”, who are being held in SIZO-2 in Pyatigorsk.

Lawyer Magomed Abubakarov explained to Fortanga that earlier the investigation had repeatedly refused to meet the defendants in the case under the pretext of a possible violation of the secrecy of the investigation.

“Both the criminal procedure law and federal legislation regarding the detention of accused and suspects provide for this right. It is simply impossible to refuse a meeting with close relatives with the wording: “this may violate the secrecy of the investigation.” If there are no justified, objective reasons not to give such a meeting, then, in my opinion, they are obliged to grant a meeting. They take advantage of the fact that, according to the law, the investigator is not “obliged”, but “may” grant a meeting. If the convicts have any guarantees in this regard, the suspects and the accused do not have them, and this is left to the discretion of the bodies in charge of the case,” Abubakarov said.

At the moment, a judge of the Essentuki city court is dealing with the issue of allowing visits. “Everyone who wrote a statement about dating was not limited in this, the court allowed everyone to visit,” another lawyer, Bashir Tochiev, told the publication.

Ingush activist Akhmed Barakhoev, who is in the Pyatigorsk pre-trial detention center, received permission to visit his wife for the first time since his arrest on April 3, 2019. Barakhoev's son and public defender, Ilez Barakhoev, specified that the meeting lasted 10 minutes, "through glass and with a barely working phone."

Fortanga also writes, citing lawyer Fatima Urusova, that human rights activists managed to improve the conditions of detention of the accused in the pre-trial detention center. “In particular, it (the leadership of the pre-trial detention center) promised to improve the overly ascetic conditions in the cells. Among them - insufficient heating, lack of hot and cold water. My colleagues and I offered our clients to file complaints with the Federal Penitentiary Service, the PMC, and human rights activists, but they refused. They are not used to complaints at all,” Urusova said.

• 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). Uzhakhov is also being prosecuted under the article on the creation of a non-profit organization, whose activities are associated with inciting citizens to refuse to perform civic duties or to commit other illegal acts (part 2 of article 239 of the Criminal Code), Barakhoev - under the article on participation in such an organization (part 2 of Art. 3 article 239 of the Criminal Code).
• On November 24, the Kislovodsk city court began considering the case of the "leaders of the Ingush protest."
• 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 December 7, 2020, 47 people were brought to justice in the wake of the rally in Magas, and criminal prosecution against 3 of them was discontinued. 31 defendants in the "Ingush case" were sentenced to imprisonment for terms ranging from six months to one year and eleven months.