34 people were sent to custody after the Baimak protests in support of File Alsynov.
All the accused were incriminated with “participation in mass riots”, writes OVS-Info. Of them, 13 people were accused of “using violence against a representative of the authorities”, and four – of “organizing riots”. Some were also charged for “throwing snowballs at the police.”
Two women are among the defendants: five defendants are between 18 and 30 years old and eight are between 31 and 50. The age of the other two is between 51 and 70 years old.
Human rights defenders add that from January 15 to 31, the courts of Bashkortostan received 163 administrative cases: 158 of them have already been considered, and in 67 of them, people have been sentenced to administrative arrest.
Mass protests erupted (https://t.me/sotavisionmedia/24268) in Bashkiria in January, after the verdict of local activist Fail Alsynov: thousands of people came to support the convicted person outside the courthouse, after which clashes with the police began.
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