Paul
Goble
Staunton, May 7 – Law enforcement
officers in Ingushetia detained three activists of the Committee Against
Torture organization who came to the republic to do a film about the recent
actions of the authorities there, but for another day, they have been unable to
locate and then arrest Akhmet Pogorov who reportedly remains in the republic.
The Russian Presidential Human
Rights Council reports that law enforcement personnel in Ingushetia have detained
Magomed Adamov, Yevgeny Chilikov and Leonid Utkin, three people affiliated with
the Committee Against Torture (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/335207/,
fortanga.org/2019/05/v-nazrani-byli-zaderzhany-bortsy-protiv-pytok/
and zamanho.com/?p=7436).
The
three, who are making a film about the case against boxer Albert Khamkhoyev
last fall, were arrested by masked men who did not identify themselves making
it impossible to know whether they are Ingush police or Russian siloviki in
Ingushetia backing up the local authorities. The republic interior ministry did
report their detentions on its website.
Meanwhile,
and despite the dragnet in Ingushetia against all suspected of opposition activity,
the authorities again proved incapable of arresting former interior minister
and opposition leader Akhmet Pogorov, even though he is on the all-Russia watchlist
and even though he remains active in the republic (kavkazr.com/a/29926862.html).
One of Pogorov’s associates says
that the former minister specially made a video appeal from Magas (facebook.com/groups/712302745792859/permalink/837122369977562/)
to show that he has no intention of leaving Ingushetia and that he will
continue the anti-corruption investigations for which he is being persecuted by
the authorities.
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