On January 26, the Kirovsky District Court of Ufa sent another participant in the gathering in support of activist Fail Alsynov in Baymak, Munir Isyangildin, to a pre-trial detention center until March 17. This was reported by his lawyer from OVD-Info.
The defendant is accused of participation in mass riots (Part 2 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code).
Many of those detained in the wake of the gathering are charged with “throwing snowballs at the police,” the defendant’s lawyer clarifies.
On February 5, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Bashkortostan rejected an appeal against the preventive measure against Munir Isyangildin; he remains in pre-trial detention until March 17. This was reported by his lawyer from OVD-Info, Maxim Kuznetsov.
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- Fail Alsynov is a Bashkir activist and ex-leader of the Bashkort movement, who was sentenced to four years in prison for speaking at a national gathering. On January 17, the day Alsynov was sentenced, residents of Bashkortostan who sympathized with the activist gathered at the court. After the verdict was announced, security forces began to detain protesters, and clashes began. Then a series of administrative and criminal cases began, followed by searches, detentions and arrests. OVD-Info talked about how security forces persecute residents of Bashkortostan here .
- A criminal case against Alsynov was opened in October 2023 due to an April speech at a gathering of residents of the Baymak region against gold miners, which he conducted entirely in the Bashkir language. In it, the activist criticized the mobilization in the republic and the lack of access of local residents to the natural resources of the region. Alsynov himself later explained that the security forces “didn’t like” his statement about “migrants who come to the republic and are engaged here, including in illegal mining.” Before the sentencing, he was under recognizance not to leave the place.
There are three known large rallies that took place in January in support of Alsynov: January 15 and 17 in Baymak , January 19 in Ufa . By According to OVD-Info, as of February 1, 34 people, including two women, became involved in a criminal case in this regard, all of them were sent to a pre-trial detention center. People are being prosecuted under articles on organizing mass riots (Part 1 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code), participating in them (Part 2 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code), as well as using violence against a government official (Article 318 of the Criminal Code), some were charged with several articles at once . At least one of the defendants, Dim Davletkildin, was strongly beat up Another, Rifat Dautov, died after being detained; his relatives were not told the cause of death and were not given a report. 16 people were detained and arrested under the article on disobedience to a police officer (Part 1 of Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), another 4 people - under Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, before opening a criminal case against them. In total, from January 15 to January 31, the courts of Bashkortostan received 163 administrative cases in the wake of protests, of which 123 were under the article on disobedience to the police (Part 1 of Article 19.3 of the Administrative Code). 155 cases were filed against men, 8 against women. Detainees were more often given administrative arrests than fines.