Paul
Goble
Staunton, February 4 – Instead of
releasing those detained in Ingush protests as has sometimes happened in
Moscow, the powers that be in Magas not only extend the detention of those
behind bars but even add to their charges while releasing those who victimized
them and arresting more despite promise by the republic head of a better
outcome, Elbert Sagov says.
In a commentary for Portal Six
entitled “In Moscow, Golunov; but with Us, Khamkhoyev,” the authorities seem
committed to doing everything they can to show that those who protest will
always be incarcerated while those among the siloviki who repress them can depend
on being let free (6portal.ru/posts/в-москве-голунов-а-у-нас-хамхоев/#more-995).
Thus, this week, a Russian court
released Timur Khamkhoyev, the former head of the Center for Countering
Extremism in Ingushetia who was convicted of beating detainees (zamanho.com/?p=16505), even as judges in
the North Caucasus refused to release protesters now in detention, instead
adding to their numbers and charges (6portal.ru/posts/хорошая-мина-добрая-улыбка-при-плохой/#more-1001).
And those events came even as the
European Court for Human Rights ruled in favor of the protesters who had been imprisoned
and beaten (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/345509/) and republic head Makhmud-Ali Kalimatov attracted attention
for a press conference at which he appeared to be more supportive of the rights
of the protester detainees.
Meanwhile,
in yet another courtroom, Amirkhan Bekov, a protester now under detention,
refused to give testimony or otherwise take part in the hearings. He was
arrested yesterday, along with at least six others, following raids in villages
of Ingushetia and Ingush areas of North Ossetia (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/345513/).
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