08:41, 18 November 2018

Activists detained in Nazran arrested for 5 days

Ruslan Yandiev. Photo from his personal page on Facebook

Ruslan Yandiev, a blogger, and Magomed Mutsolgov, a namesake of the head of the "Mashr" organization, were awarded with 5 days of administrative arrest, Ruslan Mutsolgov, the leader of the Ingush branch of the "Yabloko" Party, has stated.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that Ruslan Yandiev and Magomed Mutsolgov were detained at the gathering place of the participants of a subbotnik (voluntary cleanup day), who planned to hold it in the territory transferred by Evkurov to Chechnya.

"Magomed Mutsolgov and Ruslan Yandiev received 5 days of administrative arrest each," Ruslan Mutsolgov wrote on the Facebook.

Earlier, it was also reported about the detention of activists Barakh Chemurziev and Akhmed Pogorov, who, together with other residents of Ingushetia, gathered in the Sunzha District, intending to go to hold a subbotnik near the border with Chechnya. Later it became known that they were released.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on November 17, 2018 at 07:23 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.