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2022-07-21 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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The defense announces an appeal against the verdict for Cheldiev, Besolov and Chirkinov
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] The defense plans to seek the acquittal of Vadim Cheldiev, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison in the case of incitement to riots in Vladikavkaz, the lawyer of the other two convicts also intends to appeal the sentences. The verdict against Cheldiev is connected with the fight against dissent, activist Indira Gabolaeva, journalist Ruslan Totrov and blogger Alik Pukhaev suggested.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on July 19, the Rostov Regional Court sentenced Vadim Cheldiev to 10 years in a strict regime colony, finding him guilty of inciting extremism. Two other defendants, Arsen Besolov and Ramis Chirkinov, were sentenced to eight years in prison.
The investigation considered Vadim Cheldiev the initiator of the rally of opponents of the self-isolation regime. He was charged under four criminal articles, Cheldiev was included in the list of extremists compiled by Rosfinmonitoring. The prosecution could not prove that it was Cheldiev, Chirkinov and Besolov who organized the riots, Cheldiev's lawyer Batraz Kulchiev said earlier. The defendants pleaded not guilty.
Lawyers for the defendants intend to appeal the verdict.
The defense plans to file an appeal against Cheldiev's sentence, Batraz Kulchiev said . "The verdict will be appealed. The defense does not recognize Cheldiev's guilt, insists on a full acquittal," he told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
According to the lawyer, the verdict does not indicate Cheldiev's motive for organizing the riots. Cheldiev was also accused of aggression against the police officers who took him to the investigator in Rostov-on-Don, the lawyer said, adding that the security forces testified in court via video link.
Cheldiev was accused of organizing mass riots, publicly disseminating false information about circumstances that pose a threat to the life and safety of citizens, publicly calling for extremist activities using the Internet, and using violence against a government official that is not dangerous to life or health.
Chirkinov and Besolov were charged with organizing riots. In October 2021, the defense demanded that the case be returned to the prosecutor's office on the grounds that the investigation did not name the motive for the crime of an extremist nature, as required by the decision of the Plenum of the Supreme Court.
The sentences of Besolov and Chirkinov will also be appealed, their lawyer Kamilla Dzotsieva told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.. "The defense intends to appeal the verdict. All three are accused of organizing mass riots. Arsen and Ramis were chat administrators. During the trial, none of the witnesses and victims spoke about the coordination of the actions of the guys who threw themselves at employees [during the riots]. Everyone spoke that these were actions "in response to the actions of employees to oust people from the square". No one directed them, trained them or prepared them for mass riots. Almost none of the throwers was a member of the chat. Vadim, Arsen and Ramis each other they didn’t know personally and met after a year of detention, in a court session on changing jurisdiction. All lawyers tried to show the court the absence of the elements of the alleged crime as much as possible. An appeal is ahead," she said.
According to the indictment, Vadim Cheldiev, while in St. Petersburg and using the authority of an opera singer and a blogger in opposition to the North Ossetian authorities, posted a video message calling for people to gather in Vladikavkaz and "disperse the government and private companies that terrorize the people to hell."
This appeal was immediately qualified by the investigation both as an organization of riots and as calls for extremism. Cheldiev also published two video messages in which he questioned information about the coronavirus. Cheldiev's appeal about the gathering was supported by Ramis Chirkinov and Arsen Besolov, who, according to the investigation, were the administrators of the Freedom and Honor Telegram chat.
The harsh sentence of Cheldiev provoked criticism in Ossetia
An activist from North Ossetia, Indira Gabolaeva, saw political overtones in Cheldiev's verdict. "The court delivered a guilty verdict in the presence of legal grounds for sending the case for further investigation and even termination under certain articles. This suggests that the verdict is political. Representatives of the bodies that lobbied for such a decision do not realize that in the emerging political realities they are causing serious harm to the state. To ignore the opinion of a small people who are losing their already small number of young people in a special military operation, and to make them feel unfair and disrespectful on the part of the federal government is anti-state activity," she told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
A similar opinion was expressed by the political editor of the publication "OsNova" Ruslan Totrov.
"We have witnessed a classic state intimidation. The system does not like it very much when an individual or a group of people try to interfere in its affairs […], therefore, punishments are, as a rule, exclusively indicative," the journalist told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
The case of Cheldiev did not find support among the majority of the inhabitants of Ossetia, Totrov believes.
"The fading of interest in the case was because it is quite difficult to maintain the fire constantly. […] Sympathetically, the inhabitants of the republic clicked their tongues, shook their heads ... The repressive policy of the state in recent years against any dissent just allows the authorities to quite successfully reap the rewards," Totrov said.
Blogger Alik Pukhaev called Cheldiev's sentence unfair.
“There is no question that the punishment was commensurate with the crime in this case. Because the crime as such did not occur... 10 years - note of the "Caucasian Knot" ), in Ossetia the prosecutor Igor Cheldiev received the same term for murder ( the prosecutor Cheldiev was sentenced to 10 years in prison, he was initially charged with murder, but the court reclassified the charge. - Note of the "Caucasian Knot" "). That is, in our country people are imprisoned for murder for lesser terms or for the same ones, but Vadim did not kill anyone," the blogger told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
Recall that on April 20, 2020, the security forces dispersed a rally from Freedom Square in Vladikavkaz, the participants of which demanded that the self-isolation regime be lifted and the government, parliament and head of North Ossetia be dismissed. According to investigators, 13 employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Russian Guard were injured at the spontaneous rally.
On July 28, 2021, the Leninsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don sentenced five people to terms in a colony accused of involvement in the riots in Vladikavkaz. On July 7, 2022, a court in Rostov-on-Don found five more participants in the rally guilty of participating in mass riots and sentenced them to imprisonment.
In turn, Vadim Cheldiev stated that the security forces began to persecute him long before his arrest in 2020, trying, in particular, to interfere with the charitable activities of the Iron Ziu movement. Cheldiev also reported that he left North Ossetia after learning about plans to plant drugs on him. Vadim Cheldiev was also one of the initiators of the protests demanding the closure of the Electrozinc plant, according to a biographical note about Vadim Cheldiev published on the "Caucasian Knot".
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