The Zheleznovodsk City Court of the Stavropol Territory appointed 12 officers of the Ingushetian police for one year and six months suspended for failure to comply with an order ( part 2 of article 286.1 of the Criminal Code). The human rights center «Memorial» writes about this.
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A criminal case against 13 Ingush policemen was opened in August 2019 because they refused to disperse a rally, the participants of which protested against changing the administrative borders of the republic. The case against one of them, Magomed Dolgiev, was separated into a separate proceeding. In November 2021, he received a year and a half of probation. The motive of political enmity towards the republican authorities was excluded from the Dolgiev case, the remaining 12 police officers, according to the investigation, shared the demands and views of the rally participants.
During a rally in Magas in March 2019, during a rally in Magas in March 2019, 15 employees of the battalion of the patrol service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Ingushetia stood in a line between protesters and employees of the Russian Guard, sent to the republic from other regions, according to Memorial.
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The Ingush police themselves say that in this way they wanted to prevent clashes.
In the spring of 2019, mass protests took place in Magas against the agreement on the new administrative border between Chechnya and Ingushetia, which was adopted in September 2018. The local police battalion refused to disperse the protesters.
In March 2019, the lawyer and former press secretary of the head of Ingushetia, Kaloy Akhilgov, spoke about the disbandment of the republican police battalion. According to Memorial, in April of the same year, 13 employees appealed against the dismissals, and criminal cases were opened against them.