In Bashkortostan, FSB officers detained activists Ilnar Galin, Yulay Aralbaev and Rafail Abdrakhmanov. In addition, security forces are banging on the door of activist Ildar Yumagulov in Baymak. this . reports RusNews
Activists associate the detentions with the announcement of the sentence against Fail Alsynov under the article of inciting hatred or enmity, which will take place tomorrow, January 17, at 9:30.
Alsynov is being persecuted because of his speech in the Bashkir language at the April gathering of residents of the Baymaksky district against gold miners, a recording of which, according to law enforcement officers, he later published on the Internet. According to the prosecution, the activist “negatively assessed” the groups of people “residents of the North Caucasus or Central Asia”, “Armenians”. The man explained that the security forces “didn’t like” his statement about “migrants who come to the republic and engage here, among other things, in illegal mining.”
At the end of October 2023, Alsynov said that his friends and acquaintances began to receive threats due to reposts of the activist’s publications.
16:40 Unknown people turned off the electricity in Ildar Yumagulov’s apartment in Baymak, RusNews reports . A correspondent for the publication is in the apartment with the activist.
- Fail Alsynov is the ex-leader of the national movement “Bashkort,” which was recognized as extremist in Russia and banned in 2020. In December 2022, he was fined under the article on inciting hatred (Article 20.3.1 of the Administrative Code) due to an appeal in which the activist called the mobilization of the Bashkirs “genocide of the Bashkir people.” Then the security forces searched his car and seized his mobile phone. After this, Alsynov was detained and taken to the local FSB department, where a protocol was drawn up under the article on discrediting the army (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code). The reason for this was the same post on social networks about the war in Ukraine.