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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

The number of defendants in Makhachkala riots cases has reached 129

2024-10-27

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] There are 27 criminal cases in the courts of Kuban and Staropolye regarding the riots in Makhachkala against 129 defendants; trials have already begun in nine cases.

As reported by "Kavkazsky Uzel", the Aleksandrovsky Court of Stavropol Krai began to consider the case of four residents of Dagestan accused of involvement in the riots at the Makhachkala airport. On October 11, the Stavropol prosecutor's office reported the first court hearing in the Georgievsky City Court in the case of four residents of Dagestan accused of involvement in the riots at the Makhachkala airport; on October 18, this court began to consider the case against five more defendants. In Stavropol Krai, the cases of eight defendants are being considered by the Grachevsky Court, five by the Andropovsky District Court, and five by the Kirovsky District Court. On October 18, the head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Aleksandr Bastrykin, reported that investigators had seized more than three thousand video files from surveillance cameras in the case of the riots at the Makhachkala airport; the recordings were used to identify more than 400 people.

The Armavir City Court sentenced the defendants in the case of the riots at the Makhachkala airport Anvarbek Atayev, Islam Ibragimov, Magomed Omaraskhabov, Rabadan Radzhabov and Salik Ramazanov to terms ranging from six years, four months to nine years. The court issued a harsh sentence without evidence of the defendants' guilt, the lawyers and relatives of the convicted stated. The defense appealed the sentence. The Ust-Labinsk and Novokubansk courts of the Krasnodar Territory also began hearing the cases of the riots at the Makhachkala airport.

Courts in the Krasnodar and Stavropol Territories are to issue verdicts in 27 criminal cases against 129 defendants who "on October 29, 2023, at the Uytash airport, motivated by national and religious hatred and hostility towards Israeli citizens (...) took part in mass riots accompanied by violence and destruction of property," the Russian Prosecutor General's Office reported.

"In Stavropol Krai, hearings are currently underway on seven criminal cases involving 37 individuals, and in Krasnodar Krai, trials will soon be held on two criminal cases involving 14 residents of Dagestan," reads a statement published on the website of the Prosecutor General's Office on October 25.

The agency added that three of the organizers of the riots are on the federal wanted list.

140 people are in custody in criminal cases related to the riots at Uytash airport, 1,200 people have been brought to administrative responsibility, Dagestan Interior Minister Abdurashid Magomedov reported on July 9. The accused claim that they were at the airport but did not take part in the riots, Dagestan POC Chairman Shamil Khadulaev said on June 13.

On February 17, relatives of those involved in the riots at Makhachkala airport appealed to Putin with a request for leniency.

What happened at Uytash airport and how the investigation is proceeding is described in the "Caucasian Knot" report "The Case of the Pogrom at Makhachkala Airport."

Let us recall that from October 26 to 29, 2023, mass anti-Semitic actions took place in three republics of the North Caucasus. In Cherkessk, the protesters demanded that visitors from Israel not be allowed in, and in Nalchik, a cultural center was set on fire.

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