Paul
Goble
Staunton, December 26 – A Magas
court has extended the house arrest of Fortanga journalist Rashid
Maysigov for another three months. He had drugs planted on him after he and his
news portal played a key role in documenting the protest against the
Yevkurov-Kadyrov border deal (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/343980/).
His supporters are pleased that Maysigov
has been kept in house arrest rather than detained and that he remains in
Ingushetia rather than being moved to a neighboring republic, but they
recognize that his arrest is fraudulent as it occurred exactly at the same time
as the authorities blocked the Fortanga portal.
Meanwhile, there were four other
developments in criminal cases filed against opposition figures. First, without
warning or justification, Musa Malsagov was shifted to a detention facility in Vladikavkaz
where he remains under arrest for supposedly encouraging mass disorders and attacking
police (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/344012/).
Second,
a witness for Zubeyr Khamkhoyev, an opposition figure who continues to insist
on his innocence, said that he was fired from his government job after taking
part in a protest (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/344011/).
Third, Timur Oziyev was found guilty of attacking police even though he said he
was trying to interpose himself between the authorities and protesters (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/344001/).
And
fourth, the wife and sisters of Magomed Ozdoyev said the authorities had refused
to allow them to speak with Magomed Ozdoyev in the courtroom in Stavropol where
he is being tried and to which they had travelled from Ingushetia, another
display of cruelty by the powers that be in cases involving Ingush prisoners (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/343975/).
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