Paul
Goble
Staunton, May 17 – The EU-Russia
Civil Society Forum has condemned the Yevkurov regime’s violation of the rights
of the Ingush people and urged Moscow to intervene to stop these violations,
saying that the failure to do so could lead to the spread of violence in entire
North Caucasus (eu-russia-csf.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/StatementIngushetia17.05.2019_ru.pdf).
Simultaneously, the Ingush MASHR
human rights defense organization says that it now considers all those
detained, arrested and/or fined by the Yevkurov government to be political
prisoners and victims of political repression. It warns that the situation in
Ingushetia is now “very complex and dangerous” as a result (kavkaz-uzel.eu/blogs/342/posts/37837).
Meanwhile, the Ingush authorities
continue their searches and arrests, the most recent being at the home of
Akhmed Pogorov, who remains at large despite an all-Russian search effort, and
the brief detentions of three of his relatives as a way to put pressure on the
vice president of the World Congress of the Ingush People to turn himself in (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/335571/ and .kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/335589/).
But
those detained and charges are showing ever less willing to go along with the
authorities. Murad Daskiyev, the vice president of the Union of Teips of
Ingushetia, became the latest to reject charges, in his case that he had
disseminated fake news, and insist on his innocence (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/335557/).
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