The Essentuki City Court has given Ramazan Dugiyev, a resident of Ingushetia, a year and a half suspended sentence in the case of a clash with security forces at a rally in Magas against changing the borders with Chechnya in 2019. This follows from the verdict published on the website of the court.
Dugiev was found guilty of using violence against a security official (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code). According to the case card, the court made its decision on August 10, and on August 20 the verdict came into force.
According to the verdict, on March 26, 2019, Dugiev participated in an agreed rally near the building of the Ingushetia television and radio company. The action was supposed to end at 18:00, but the activist remained to protest. The next morning, at about 7:39, he, as the court established, hit the shield of an OMON fighter Gushchin with his fist, and then with his other hand hit the security official in the head.
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“From these actions Dugieva R.A. victim Gushchin AND.A. was not injured, but experienced severe physical pain,” the court noted.
Dugiev’s 27-year-old brother Ibragim was sentenced in 2020 to a real term in a penal colony on a similar charge of using violence against a security official at rally. According to Memorial, the court credited him with time in a pre-trial detention center and under house arrest during the investigation and released him (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code).
In total, according to Memorial’s calculations, the courts issued 39 sentences under the article on the use of violence against security forces March 27, 2019. Seven leaders of the protests were sentenced to 7.5 to 9 years in prison due to the change in the border between Chechnya and Ingushetia.