Russia: Nine new beliefs in Bashkortostan, where demonstrations continue
Nine people arrested in Baymak, in the Russian republic of Bashkortostan, were sentenced to several days in prison during protests, the city’s court announced Friday, as protest rallies, rare in Russia, continue.
Nine defendants convicted of participation were sentenced to eight to fifteen days in detention. “At an Unofficial Public Event”He clarified in a press release.
File Alsinov, a critic and dissident of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, was arrested on Wednesday during a demonstration outside a court in Baymak, a city of 17,000 near Kazakhstan, after he was sentenced to four years in prison. Especially the campaign against the exploitation of Bashkortostan’s energy resources. He was tried behind closed doors for “inciting hatred or enmity on account of caste, caste, nationality, language, origin, religion and membership in a social group and attacking the reputation of a person or group of people”.
According to the NGO OVD-Info, 6,000 people took part in the rally, which escalated into clashes with the police. About twenty were arrested and six were sentenced to a few days in jail on Thursday.
Such displays of anger are extremely rare in Russia, where any criticism of authority is punishable by prison.
Several dozen supporters of Fail Alsinov gathered again on Friday, this time in Ufa, the capital of Bashkortostan, despite a large police force, as videos posted on social networks show police carrying out attacks. arrest.
A few dozen meters ahead, other demonstrators were reciting lines from local hero Salavat Yulev, an 18th-century Bashkir poet.E Century whose imposing statue is adjacent to the Convention Centre, on the banks of the Belaiya River.
The Kremlin has not commented on Wednesday’s events in Baimak, but Bashkortostan President Radi Khabirov condemned the call. “isolationism”.
