Paul
Goble
Staunton, June 7 – Russian officials
have moved Zarifa Sautiyeva to a court detention site in Stavropol kray because
Moscow doesn’t want Ingush protesters still under arrest to be tried in a
republic court. As a result, the only Ingush
woman detained for taking part in demonstrations has had her health put at serious
risk, her lawyer, Bilan Dzugayev says.
Dzyugaev says that Russian courts in
Stavropol Kray are violating the Russian criminal code by moving her at a time
when doing so puts Sautiyeva at risk of being infected by the coronavirus. Arrested
on July 12, 2019, Sautiyeva, a diabetic, has lost weight and is not in good
condition to start with (fortanga.org/2020/06/zarifa-sautieva-zhdyot-suda-v-ivs-essentukov/).
A heroine to the Ingush people for
her work both before and during the protests, Sautiyeva has attracted international
attention and support since the Memorial Human Rights organization declared her
a political prisoner. (For details about her case, see windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2020/05/zarifa-sautiyeva-ingush-political.html.)
Meanwhile, Magomed Khastyrov, the
acting mufti of Ingushetia, is seeking to balance between directives from
Moscow Muslim leaders to reopen and the desires of Ingush Muslims for that as
well and the need to keep restrictions in place to prevent a new explosion in
the number of coronavirus cases (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/350527/).
The Muslim Spiritual Directorate (MSD)
of Russia called for reopening mosques for prayer as of June 1, but Khastyrov
and other Muslim leaders in the North Caucasus rejected that date as too soon. The
Ingush mufti now says that he will allow mosques to reopen on June 12, as long
as protective masks are worn and disinfections are carried out regularly.
As of yesterday, there had been 2317
coronavirus cases registered, with 61 deaths (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/350509/).
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