Paul
Goble
Staunton, October 8 – Despite a court
ruling liquidating the Spiritual Center of Muslims of Ingushetia, that MSD
continues to function, plans to appeal, and has now issued an appeal to the
regime to release all political prisoners (doshdu.com/muftijat-ingushetii-prizval-otpustit-arestovannyh-politaktivistov/
and zamanho.com/?p=13510).
Meanwhile, lawyers for Maysigov
Rashid, the Fortanga journalist whom officials have charged with drug
possession will now face trial, his lawyer says. The investigation has been
completed but no date for the first hearing of his case has been set (fortanga.org/2019/10/delo-zhurnalista-fortangaorg-rashida-majsigova-peredano-v-sud/).
Sultan Kodzoyev, one of his
colleagues, says that “the sad picture of the fate of regional journalists
arrested for their professional activities … leaves few hopes for justice. The only
way remaining to defend them from arbitrariness is the support of civil society.”
That can sometimes but not always make the difference.
Yet another case of such malfeasance
has surfaced at the detention center in Nalchik, the capital of
Kabardino-Balkaria where many Ingush activists are being held. There, jail
officials blocked lawyers for the defendants from seeing their clients, saying
they had a list of which lawyers were supposed to be allowed and which not (mbk-news.appspot.com/news/ne-pustili-advokatov/).
And in yet another indication that times
are tough in Ingushetia beyond just the protests and their suppression, deputy
prime minister Mikhail Ilezov said that the authorities would like to turn off
most street lights at night in the Ingush capital to save the republic
government money (akcent.site/novosti/6107).
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