Malsag Uzhakhov
- Criminal Code
- Article 239 (part unknown), Russian Criminal CodeArticle 239 part 2, Russian Criminal CodeArticle 282.1 part 1, Russian Criminal CodeArticle 318 part 2 applied with Article 33 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
- Case category
- Extremism casesCases related to mass actions
- Verdict
- Ban on activity, Imprisonment (general regime), Restriction of liberty
- Sentence
- 9 years
- Date of verdict
- 2021-12-15
- Region
- Ingushetia
- City
- Magas
- Facility
- ФКУ "ИК № 12 УФСИН России по Волгоградской области"
- Address for letters
- 404103, Волгоградская область, г. Волжский, ул. Александрова, 86, ФКУ "ИК № 12 УФСИН России по Волгоградской области", Ужахов Малсаг Мусаевич, 1952 г.р.
Case summary
On 18 April 2019, detained and taken into custody the next day on charges of organising the use of violence against police officers at a rally on 27 March 2019. Sent to a pre-trial detention centre in Nalchik. Later transferred to the pre-trial detention centre in Vladikavkaz.
Uzhakhov was also charged under part 2 of article 239 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (the creation of a non-profit organisation, the activities of which involve inducing citizens to refuse to perform civil duties or to commit other illegal acts, as well as the management of such an organisation). The lawyer said that by such an organisation the prosecution meant the Council of Teips of the Ingush People.
According to his lawyer, Dzhabrail Kuriyev, Uzhakhov has a number of serious chronic diseases: diabetes mellitus and arterial hypertension.
D late December 2019, a case was opened on organising the activities of an extremist community.
On 16 March 2021, he went on hunger strike and refused to participate in the trial in connection with the return of Zarifa Sautieva from house arrest to the pre-trial detention centre. On 23 March, he stopped the hunger strike after appeals from the public.
On 15 December, he was sentenced to nine years in a general regime colony. He was released on 27 February 2026.
Others charged under Article 239 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
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