Paul
Goble
Staunton, November 27 – One can only
be impressed by the speed with which investigators have tracked down the apparent
murderers of Ibragim Eldzharikiyev, the head of the anti-extremism authorities for
Ingushetia, were it not for one thing, Ingush blogger Magomed Mutsolgov says.
It highlights the double standards of Russian and Ingush officials.
The authorities have thrown all
their resources to get a quick resolution of this case involving the killing of
one of their own, but they do not make a similar commitment when the victim is
an ordinary Russian or Ingush, the Ingush blogger says. Then, they the wheels
of justice to grind extremely slowly if at all (kavkaz-uzel.eu/blogs/342).
Many murders and disappearances in
Ingushetia remain unresolved, especially when there is evidence that the Russian
siloviki were behind them. All this
shows, he says, that “in our days, success in solving crimes depends not on
professionalism as it should but on the presence of political will of the leadership
of the country or of one of its regions.”
(On the remarkably quick resolution
of the Moscow murder case, see iz.ru/947732/iaroslava-kostenko-sofiia-deviatova-sergei-izotov/klan-b-ubiistvo-glavy-tcentra-e-raskryli-za-dve-nedeli
and doshdu.com/po-delu-ob-ubijstve-nachalnika-cpje-mvd-ingushetii-zaderzhano-chetyre-cheloveka/.)
The resolution of crimes is hardly
the only sphere in which there are now two classes of people in the Russian
Federation, those who are part of or are supported by the powers that be and
those who are not. The treatment of
those incarcerated also depends on which category an individual is a member of.
The former are often treated better
while in confinement and released early, but the latter are mistreated and kept
in detention despite the absence of evidence of anything approaching a
crime. A case of the latter that attracted
attention today involves Zarifa Sautiyeva who reports she has been deprived of
necessary medicines for five days.
This was connected with her illegal
transfer from one detention center to another. She wanted to begin a hunger
strike in protest, but her attorney, Bilan Dzugayev, dissuaded her lest she
suffer even more (fortanga.org/2019/11/zarifa-sautievu-snova-zayavlyaet-o-psihologicheskom-davlenii-ee-derzhat-v-sizo-bez-lekarstv-5-dnej/
and doshdu.com/ingushskaja-aktivistka-zarifa-sautieva-zajavila-o-psihologicheskom-davlenii-na-nejo/.)
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