On May 10, a Minsk court will hear the case of the Ingush opposition activist Ismail Nalgiev, who was detained at the National Airport “Minsk”. The court will consider his extradition to Russia.
As the Caucasus Times was told by the lawyer of Ismail Nalgiev, Anton Gashinsky, the activist was detained on the grounds of allegedly being on the interstate wanted list. The detainee states that he was not on the federal wanted list, but while signing documents, he saw that he was being held over the case about the riots.
Three hours later, he was formally released, but officers in civilian clothes took him in handcuffs to the local police district of Minsk. There, an administrative report was filed on him. Then the activist was taken to the local police department, and from there to the temporary detention center.
Presumably, he was detained over Article 23:55 of the Administrative Code (Violation of the law on the legal status of foreign citizens and stateless persons).
The Ingush oppositionists are confident that the detention of Nalgiev is politically motivated, since he is one of the leaders of the Ingush protest against the border treaty with Chechnya. Protesters claim that the leaders of the regions (Yunus-Bek Yevkurov and Ramzan Kadyrov) misled the people of Ingushetia by transferring to the neighboring republic a part of mountainous lands in the Sunzhensky district. This area has long been the subject of territorial disputes, there was no exact boundary there.
The relevant agreement was signed only in September 2018, which resulted in rallies of dissent. Last fall, security officials conducted searches in Nalgiev and his comrades-in-arms’ homes.
МГ/МВ belsat.eu
