Security forces charged Ibragim Kartoev, a participant in the protests in Magas, under the article on the use of life-threatening violence against police officers (Part 2 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code). Previously, he voluntarily surrendered to the police. The Caucasian Knot writes about this with reference to the man’s lawyer, Hussein Guliyev.
On September 27, it became known that Kartoev (then the media did not report his name)surrendered to the police: he was detained, and on September 28 he was placed under house arrest. Although the Ingushetia newspaper claimed that the detainee had been on the federal wanted list since 2019, lawyer Guliyev denies this. “There are no such documents about his search. He was in Murmansk and was not hiding from anyone. The operatives called him and offered to meet. He gave his address in Murmansk, they arrived and returned with him. He actually turned himself in,” the defender told Caucasian Knot. “Kartoev simply did not know that the police needed him,” he concluded.
Guliyev hopes that the charge will be reclassified to the less serious first part of Article 318 of the Criminal Code (use of non-life-threatening violence against a police officer), since “what he is charged with did not cause harm to the health of police officers,” and the defense has a video recording at its disposal to prove this.
- 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 a rally in Magas. About two thousand protesters remained in the square throughout the night. In the morning they began to disperse them, resulting in clashes between security forces and protesters.
- In total, 52 people were brought to criminal responsibility in the case of the events that occurred on the morning of March 27 during the forceful dispersal of an uncoordinated rally in Magas; the prosecution of three of them was stopped, Memorial reports . Support for political prisoners." The courts handed down guilty verdicts against 48 people.
- In December 2021, seven defendants in the case—protest leaders— were sentenced to actual terms ranging from 7.5 to 9 years in prison. In July 2023, the verdict was confirmed .