The Teipov Council asked Putin to release the prisoners of the “Ingush case”

The council of tapes of Ingushetia recorded a video appeal to the President of Russia Vladimir Putin with a request to release the convicted leaders of the protest against the land agreement with Chechnya. The Council decided to come up with such a proposal after the head of PMC “Wagner” Yevgeny Prigozhin managed to avoid punishment for rebellion, the capture of two cities and the death of several military pilots.

In particular, the brother of the former Minister of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia Akhmed Pogorov appealed to the president. He reminded that during the uprising on June 24, the country “was in chaos.”

“Despite everything the mercenaries did, the charges against them were dropped at the same time. Our compatriots are in prison on a fabricated case, their fault was only that they asked you to restore their violated rights. You said that someone in threw bottles at the crowd – yes, someone young was found, but the Wagnerites did not shoot at the helicopters from a slingshot, leaving behind a trail of dead people,” Magomed Pogorov said.

He asked the president to release those convicted in the “Ingush case” as quickly as all charges were dropped against the mercenaries, whose actions the president previously described with the phrase “a knife in the back.”

The accused in the “Ingush case” protested against the agreement on changing the border with Chechnya. The March 27, 2019 rally in Magas ended with clashes with riot police and the Russian Guard.

In December 2021, a court in Essentuki found seven protest leaders in Ingushetia guilty of organizing violence against representatives of the authorities and creating an extremist community, as well as participating in it. They were sentenced to seven to nine years of imprisonment in a general regime colony. An appeal against this sentence is now being considered in the Stavropol Regional Court. All those convicted in this case were declared political prisoners by the Memorial human rights center.

• On June 23, Yevgeny Prigozhin and his subordinate private military company “Wagner” initiated a mutiny against the leadership of the Russian Ministry of Defense and the department’s plans to disband the PMC. A column of several thousand armed Wagnerians entered Rostov-on-Don, the second column moved to Moscow.
• At the same time, several helicopters and one plane of the Ministry of Defense, which, according to Prigozhin, were trying to bomb the convoy were shot down. The flight crews – a total of 13 people – died.
• By the evening of June 24, it became known about the negotiations between Prigozhin and the authoritarian leader of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko. As a result, the advance of the “Wagner” columns towards Moscow was stopped, and Vladimir Putin promised in return to stop the pursuit of the rebels.