Paul
Goble
Staunton, May 19 – Khasan Katsiyev,
an Ingush activist currently under detention, says that he and his family face
an impossible situation: “My father de facto is dead; but de jure, he is still
alive” because officials don’t want to issue a death certificate because they
don’t want to list the coronavirus as the cause.
Katsiyev says that his father
suffered from all the symptoms of the virus and that medical personal, whom he
described as “heroes,” treated his father for the disease. The problem has
arisen because of government officials fearful of boosting death rates from the
pandemic (fortanga.org/2020/05/hasan-katsiev-moj-otets-de-fakto-umer-a-de-yure-do-sih-por-zhiv-o-tom-kak-v-statistike-ingushetii-po-covid-tsifry-rashodyatsya-s-faktami/).
Meanwhile the case against a Magas doctor
for conducting surgery leading to the genital mutilation of a nine-year-old girl
continues to spark anger within the republic and beyond, but it has highlighted
not only that there is no specific Russian law against this barbaric crime but also
that if the doctor is convicted under another one, she will only pay a fine of
no more than 40,000 rubles (560 US dollars).
The doctor initially admitted
conducting the surgery but then changed her testimony saying that she had
removed a cyst. What will happen next is unclear as the case has been suspended
because of the pandemic (nazaccent.ru/content/33160-v-rossii-rassmatrivayut-pervoe-ugolovnoe-delo.html
and kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/349816/).
Meanwhile, despite the coronavirus,
the spring draft in Ingushetia, which is to take 400 young men for military service,
is continuing (capost.media/news/obshchestvo/in-ingushetia-in-the-background-coronavirus-is-draft-campaign/);
but Muslim leaders have tol the faithful not to engage in any public activities
at the end of Ramadan (gazetaingush.ru/obshchestvo/ingushskoe-duhovenstvo-prosit-zhiteley-otmechat-marhash-v-krugu-semi-iz-za-slozhnoy).
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