Paul
Goble
Staunton, June 10 – With the
extension of the detention of republic Red Cross President Musa Malsagov having
been extended to September 25, only two Ingush protest leaders now remain free –
former interior minister Akhmed Pogorov, who is on an all-Russian arrest list,
and Magomed Musolgov, a human rights blogger Yunus-Bek Yevkurov has regularly
attacked.
That sweeping crackdown should be
remembered by those who today may be celebrating the release of one journalist
in Moscow in response to public outcry, however welcome that may be (zamanho.com/?p=8996 and fortanga.org/2019/06/muse-malsagovu-prodlili-srok-soderzhaniya-v-sizo/).
The imprisonment of so many has not
intimidated either of the two who remain free. Pogorov continues to prepared
and disseminate video clips about Yevkurov’s crimes and Mutsolgov has declared
that he would support Malsagov for president of Ingushetia (kavkaz-uzel.eu/blogs/342/posts/38169).
But as the blogger points out, the
authorities in the republic and too cowardly and corrupt to allow the Red Cross
leader to run for president of the republic: they aren’t even willing to “risk
having municipal elections,” let alone any for the leadership of Ingushetia as
a whole.
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