The head of the Human Rights Council of Bashkortostan said that at the Baymak protests “the organizers prepared ice and snow mounds”

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The head of the Human Rights Council of Bashkortostan, Zulfiya Gaisina, said that at the Baymak protests , “the organizers prepared ice and snow mounds.” “7x7”drew attention to the statement.

Protests in Baymak took place in January of this year. On January 17, the defender of the Kushtau Shikhan, activist Fail Alsynov, was sentenced to four years in a general regime colony on charges of inciting ethnic hatred. The case was fabricated based on a denunciation by the head of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Radiy Khabirov. In the city of Baymak, several thousand people gathered to support Alsynov.

After the verdict was announced, security forces began to detain protesters, and clashes began. Photos of the provocateurs of the clashes later appeared on social networks; they were from the security forces. The gathering was dispersed using tear gas and stun grenades.

On February 15, it became known that Minniyar Bayguskarov, a defendant in the case of “mass riots” in Baymak, committed suicide . Earlier , it became known about the death of another person accused of “mass riots,” Rifat Dautov. Dautov was detained by security forces on January 25 in the village of Zianchurinsky district. On January 26, Dautov’s relatives were informed of the need to identify his body.

The chairwoman of the Human Rights Council of the Republic stated : “I have already participated in several court hearings: the investigation established that these were not spontaneous unrest, the organizers carefully planned everything and even specially prepared ice sheets, built snow mounds, gave clear instructions on where to move and when to attack law enforcement officers.” Gaisina also called on those accused in the Baymak case to apologize to the families of the injured security forces.

In September, a blogger from Bashkortostan who calmed people at a protest in Baymak was charged with organizing mass unrest. At least 79 people became involved in criminal cases after these protests. The four defendants in the “Baymak case” were sentenced - they will serve from 4.5 to 5.5 years in a colony. In total, the courts received, according to OVD-Info estimates , 556 administrative cases that may be related to actions in support of Alsynov.

Baymak case

• On January 17, 2024, the Baymaksky District Court sentenced Bashkort activist and former leader of the Bashkort organization Fail Alsynov to four years in prison. In order to support Alsynov, thousands of his supporters gathered near the court during the hearings: ts.

• Alsynov was detained on October 12, 2023. Security forces searched his apartment in Ufa and his parents’ house in the village of Yuldybaevo. After investigative actions, he was released on his own recognizance. The prosecution asked him for four years in a penal colony.

• Alsynov is being prosecuted in the case of initiating Part 1 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation of hatred because of his speech in April 2023 at a national gathering against gold mining companies in the Baymaksky district.

  According to investigators, Alsynov “made a speech in the Bashkort language, containing statements that negatively assessed groups of people ... - “residents of the Caucasus”, “Central Asia”, “Armenians”, as well as humiliation of their human dignity.”

  According to the translation , the activist also spoke about the oppression of the Bashkort people. “Our guys go and die in war for someone, but here there are not even men left to defend their land,” he said. A criminal case was opened following a denunciation by the head of Bashkortostan, Radiy Khabirov.

• In December 2022, the Kirovsky District Court of Ufa imposed a fine of ten thousand rubles on Alsynov under the article on inciting hatred or enmity. The reason was his appeal to the Bashkort people, published on social networks. In it, Alsynov called the mobilization “genocide of the Bashkort people” and said that Russia’s war against Ukraine is not a war of the Bashkortos:k.

• The Bashkort organization existed in 2014–2020 and advocated for the sovereignty of Bashkortostan, as well as in support of the Bashkort language and culture. In May 2020, the Supreme Court of Bashkortostan declared it extremist, after which it ceased to exist.

How did Bashkortostan become part of Russia?

• Most of the territory On the territory of Historical Bashkortostan in modern Russia there is a republic of the same name, Chelyabinsk, Orenburg regions, as well as parts of Tatarstan, Udmurtia, Perm Territory, Samara, Kurgan, Saratov and Sverdlovsk regions. , where the Bashkorts historically lived, was conquered by the Russian kingdom in the middle of the 16th century.

• In 1917, the Bashkir national movement advocated autonomy within the Russian Republic. In Bashkurdistan, the Bolshevik policies were opposed by a massive peasant insurgency.

• In 1990, the first president of Bashkortostan, Murtaza Rakhimov, declared sovereignty within the USSR - Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic The Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was transformed into the Bashkir SSR Soviet Socialist Republic . Subsequently, Rakhimov will become one of the founders of the Fatherland - All Russia party, in the future United Russia.

• In 2014, the public organization “Bashkort” was founded in Bashkortostan, which held congresses of the Bashkir people, discussed problems of the federal structure and advocated the preservation of the national language

• In 2020, the Russian Supreme Court declared the organization extremist. At that time, Bashkort was actively defended by the Kushtau shihan, which was transferred to the development of the Bashkir soda company.

• The successor organization “Bashkir National Political Center” consistently advocates for the secession of Bashkortostan from Russia, also calling not to participate in the war against Ukraine.