Paul
Goble
Staunton, July 24 – The Committee
for the Defense of Journalists is demanding the liberation of Ingush journalist
Rashid Maysigov and Reporters without Borders has made similar appeals for him
and for Zarifa Sautiyeva (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/338222/ and rsf.org/en/news/russian-authorities-persecute-ingush-news-website).
Such declarations show that international
attention to the crackdown in that North Caucasus republic is increasing the
longer the authorities engage in repressive actions against those whose actions
cannot be dismissed as ethnic activism. And because of these appeals,
international media attention is increasing as well.
Both these developments increase the cost
that Moscow and Magas are having to pay for their actions.
Meanwhile, Ingush activist Baraduin
Myakiev who said he had been tortured has demanded that he receive medical
attention, something his jailors have not yet provided (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/338270/), and Nalchik
jailors are preventing relatives of Sautiyeva from visiting her, her lawyer
reports (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/338228/).
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