Paul
Goble
Staunton, October 12 – Yesterday, Moscow’s
Kommersant newspaper, picking up on various Telegram channels, reported
that police in Ingushetia had arrested Akhmed Pogorov, the vice president of the
World Congress of the Ingush People, who has been on wanted lists for more than
five months (kommersant.ru/doc/4124603).
But despite a massive raid on his
residence, his lawyer Magomed Bekov says, they did not find or arrest him,
perhaps dissuaded by a large crowd of friends and supporters who gathered
around the house when the police arrived, apparently certain that this time
they would seize Pogorov (kavkazr.com/a/30213131.html).
According to Pogorov’s attorney, the
police may have been trying to provoke the population into acting in ways that
would have allowed the authorities to arrest more of them; but if so, that
effort failed: the crowd behaved well and there was no basis for such actions, Bekov
continues.
This is the latest case in which Moscow
reports something about Ingushetia that turns out not to be true.
Meanwhile, the repressive actions of the authorities
continue. In Nalchik, jailors again denied lawyer Fatima Urusova access to
imprisoned Ingush activist Zarifa Sautiyeva (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/341137/ and zamanho.com/?p=13759), complicating preparations
for future hearings.
And in the Sunzhe district, part of which
was transferred to Chechnya as a result of the September 2018 deal between
former Ingush head Yunus-Bek Yevkurov and Chechnya’s Ramzan Kadyrov, several
herdsman unsuccessfully tried to seize municipal land without permission, an indication
of just how sensitive land issues are (sunja-ri.ru/index.php/3427-popytka-samozakhvata-zemel-presechena-v-selskom-poselenii-nesterovskoe).
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