Paul
Goble
Staunton, April 22 – A Russian
appeals court in Stavropol accepted prosecutors’ arguments that two Ingush
protesters, Bagaudin Myakiyev and Ruslan Dzeytov, had acted on the basis of
political motives in striking police during the March 2019 demonstration and
transferred both to stricter prison colonies to serve their sentences.
In addition, the court extended
Myakiyev’s sentence by a month. He may face additional punishment because he
left the court before police could take him away after court officials told his
lawyer that he was free to go and would be picked up at his residence. But then
he was arrested on the way to his home.
(On these two cases, see capost.media/news/politika/in-the-stavropol-territory-court-has-toughened-punishment-to-the-defendant-in-the-ingush-case/, kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/348647/,
fortanga.org/2020/04/bagaudin-myakiev-zaderzhan-na-chermenskom-postu-po-obvineniyu-v-pobege-iz-zala-suda/ and
kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/348676/.)
Meanwhile, the number of coronavirus
infections and deaths in Ingushetia continue to rise, with medical personnel
saying they do not have sufficient supplies to protect themselves as they treat
those with the disease and questions being raised about Magas’ much looser
approach to self-isolation than in neighboring Chechnya (capost.media/news/mainhotnews/in-ingushetia-the-number-of-people-infected-with-coronavirus-has-reached-397-people/).
And a new analysis shows that
official claims that unemployment in the republic had fallen from 43.7 percent
in 2013 to only 26 percent now, a figure few Ingush believe to be true, is not
confirmed by official reports on tax payments for those who have jobs there. The
real level of unemployment is thus much higher (kavkaz-uzel.eu/blogs/342/posts/42862).
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