Paul
Goble
Staunton, September 21 – Andrey
Sabinin, a prominent lawyer in the North Caucasus, says that it is now clear to
him courts handling the cases of Ingush protesters are not dispensing
individual justice but rather processing the defendants and handling out
sentences to them according to orders from above (fortanga.org/2019/09/andrej-sabinin-ingushskaya-bolotka/).
That is perhaps no surprise, given
the existence of “telephone justice” in Russia; but his reputation is such that
his declaration will only add to the anger of Ingush people who have long
suspected as Sabinin does that the powers that be in Moscow and Magas decided
at the time of the protests exactly how they would charge and sentence
demonstrators.
And it will mean that each new
decision of one of the courts, on issues like extending detentions or changing
charges, will be highly predictive of what is going to happen to others, as is
increasingly the situation regarding the extension of detentions from the end
of September to the end of December (e.g, kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/340405/).
Meanwhile, there were two other
“Ingush” developments: Beslan Tsechoyev, who has been Magas mayor for the last
four years and thus heavily involved in the handling of protests over the last
year, was forced to resign by Makhud-Ali Kalimatov (doshdu.com/mjer-magasa-zajavil-ob-otstavke-po-trebovaniju-glavy-ingushetii/).
And deputies in the Chechen
parliament “unanimously” supported the call to rename the Sunzhe district,
which includes some of the land former Ingush head Yunus-Bek Yevkurov
transferred to Chechnya in his deal with Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov a year
ago (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/340403/).
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