Paul
Goble
Staunton, April 30 – The Supreme Court
of Kabardino-Balkaria has refused to release Malsag Uzhakhov, head of the Council
of Teips of the Ingush People, from jail and allow him to await trial under
house arrest, an action that has outraged Ingush activists not only because of
its substance but because it was taken by a court outside the republic (zamanho.com/?p=7042).
Meanwhile, arrests, raids, fines and
other acts of harassment by the Ingush authorities against the opposition
continue unabated, with indications that the Yevkurov dragnet is spreading to
an ever larger circle of people often removed from protesters (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/334925/,
zamanho.com/?p=7067, and kasparov.ru/material.php?id=5CC7E8FBA07B8).
There were two developments far from
the republic, however, that many there felt encouraged by. The delegation of
human rights activists who came to Ingushetia last week met with Tatyana
Moskalkova, the Russian plenipotentiary for human rights and Mikhail Fedotov,
the head of the presidential council on civil society and human rights to
report on the situation in Ingushetia (fortanga.org/2019/04/pravozashhitniki-rasskazali-fedotovu-i-moskalkovoj-o-situatsii-v-ingushetii/).
And reports reached Ingushetia that
on Sunday, April 28, a group of Ingush in London staged a demonstration to
protest against the illegal actions Yunus-Bek Yevkurov has taken and especially
at the recent wave of arrests. The meeting demanded the liberation of all
political prisoners in the republic (zamanho.com/?p=7053).
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