Paul
Goble
Staunton, June 4 – With the end of
Ramadan, Ingushetia is particularly on edge, with many people predicting that
the protests which had roiled the republic before the start of the Holy Month
will resume. In preparation for that,
the Yevkurov regime continued its wave of arrests and the shifting of those
detained from one place to another.
The only positive development, if it
can be called that, is that Yunus-Bek Yevkurov has suspended plans to tear down
the barracks in which refugees from the 1992 border conflict with North Ossetia
have been living, a move likely prompted by a desire that these people not join
the protests or add their issue to the protesters’ agenda (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/336266/).
But
those who engaged in protest earlier fared far worse. A Nalchik court ordered
that opposition activist Zelimkhan Bopkhoyev be jailed for two months as
charges that he attacked police earlier are investigated (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/336279/).
And teip leaders Akhmed Barakhoyev and Malsag Uzhakhov were shifted from jails
in Vladikavkaz to Nalchik (fortanga.org/2019/06/ahmeda-barahoeva-i-malsaga-uzhahova-segodnya-snova-perevezli-v-sizo-nalchika/
.
Yevkurov’s tactic of moving
those detained form one jail to another makes it more difficult for their lawyers
and family members to make contact and adds to the uncertainty among prisoners
as to how they will be treated. Those detained outside the republic as these
two have been are at particular risk of abuse.
Just how tense, even explosive the
situation in Ingushetia has become was signaled today by a clash between Ingush
young people and guards at the North Ossetian border. The young people refused
and, according to the police, behaved in an “aggressive” manner. Several were arrested
(kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/336246/).
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