Paul
Goble
Staunton, December 16 – The Ingush National
Unity Committee, set up in October 2018 to coordinate civil society is calling
on to Ingush civil society to use “all legal means to achieve the preservation
and restoration of the territorial integrity of our republic” in accordance
with the republic Constitution and the Russian law on the rehabilitation of
repressed peoples.
Noting that “the majority of participants
in the INUC are under detention or forced to hide from persecution,” the group
declares that its opportunities for taking action on its own are “extremely limited”
(fortanga.org/2019/12/zayavlenie-ingushskogo-komiteta-natsionalnogo-edinstva-2/).
But the INUC appeal suggests that “this
doesn’t mean that the Ingush people agrees with the arbitrariness applied to
civic activists and is ceasing to defend its interests.” Many Ingush will likely read this declaration
as a call for new demonstrations first and foremost at court hearings of those
now in detention center.
Meanwhile, courts in Stavropol Kray
extended the detention of two Ingush activists, Khasan Zayzikov to March 2020
and Rashid Aushev to February 2020 (zamanho.com/?p=16034,
kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/343593/ and
kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/343595/).
And the same courts sentenced a third
Ingush activist Zelimkhan Tomov to 17 months behind bars for his role in the
protests. Taking into account time served in detention, he will be released on
December 25 (zamanho.com/?p=16030, kavkazr.com/a/30328366.html, kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/343593/ and kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/343593/).
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