Paul
Goble
Staunton, June 25 – An appeals court
in Pyatigorsk has overruled a lower court which imposed at the request of
prosecutors a tougher sentence on Ruslan Dzeytov, an Ingush activist still in
detention for his role in the March 2019 protests. But it refused to release
him as his lawyers had sought because of fears he might contract the coronavirus
while in jail.
Dzeytov was arrested in May 2019 and
in February, he was convicted of using force against siloviki and sentenced to
21 months in a settlement. Then in April, at the request of prosecutors, he was
ordered to be put in a more restrictive general regime colony . The appeals
court’s decision voids that (fortanga.org/2020/06/uchastniku-ingushskogo-protesta-ruslanu-dzejtovu-otmenili-uzhestochenie-nakazaniya/).
His attorney, Visit Tsoroyev,
welcomed the decision but noted that his request that Dzeytov be released while
he appeals his minor conviction so that he won’t be infected with the coronavirus.
It is unclear whether the change in this sentence represents a change in policy
or is a one-off event in Stavropol’s courts.
Today, voting on the proposed constitutional
amendments began in Ingushetia. Nine Ingush teips have called on their members to
boycott the referendum, and interviews by the Fortanga agency suggest
that many Ingush plan to follow their advice (fortanga.org/2020/06/golosovat-po-popravkam-v-konstitutsiyu-ne-budu-rezultaty-videooprosa-na-ulitsah-ingushetii/).
Others with whom the agency spoke
said they would vote, but many said they would vote against the
amendments.
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