In Bashkortostan, five more participants in the gathering near the court in Baymak were sent to a pre-trial detention center on charges of mass unrest

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Ufa sent to pre-trial detention five participants in the gathering in Baymak in support of the defender of the Bashkir shihans, Fail Alsynov. this . reported The press service of the court

We are talking about Aisuvake Yavgastine, Fidane Ismagilov, Salavate Yelkibaeva, Burunbaye Abushakhmin and a man with the surname Sagadiev.

All of them are accused of participating in “mass riots” (Part 2 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code). This is exactly how the Investigative Committee qualified the clashes during the dispersal by security forces of a gathering near the court in Baymak on January 17, when Alsynov’s sentence was announced there.

According to chats maintained by relatives of the detainees, security forces came to most of them more than a week after the action—on January 25 and 26. Of the five, only Salavat Elkibaev, the father of three children, was detained in Baymak on the day of the gathering and arrested for 10 days under the administrative article on disobedience to police officers (19.3 of the Administrative Code). After the arrest was completed, he was taken to Ufa, where he was charged in a criminal case.

Protests in Bashkortostan in January began due to the persecution of environmental activist Fail Alsynov, who was the co-chairman of the Bashkort organization banned in Russia by a court decision and participated in protecting the Kushtau Shikhan from development in 2020.

On January 17, the Baymaksky District Court sentenced Alsynov to four years in prison. He was found guilty of inciting hatred while delivering a speech at a gathering against the plans of gold miners to begin gold mining near the village of Ishmurzino (Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code). The case was opened on the initiative of the head of Bashkortostan, Radiy Khabirov, who wrote a complaint to the prosecutor’s office.

Mass gatherings in support of Alsynov also took place on January 15 at the court in Baymak and on January 19 in Ufa at the monument to Salavat Yulaev. The criminal case under the article of “mass riots” concerns the events of January 17. According to OVD-Info estimates, more than 30 people were involved.