[KavkazUzel] The Stavropol Regional Court sentenced seven residents of Dagestan to 14 to 15 years in a maximum security prison. Their defense promised to appeal the verdict. The total number of people convicted for the pogrom at Makhachkala airport in 2023 reached 129. As reported by the "Caucasian Knot", earlier, colleagues of one of those convicted today, Mikail Razakov, recorded a video message in the special operation zone in Ukraine to the head of Dagestan, Sergei Melikov, in which they asked for help in transferring Razakov to house arrest due to his deteriorating health.
On October 29, 2023, mass riots occurred at Makhachkala airport due to a report of the arrival of a plane with passengers from Israel. More than 20 people were injured in the riots. What happened at Uytash airport and how the investigation is going is described in the "Caucasian Knot" report " Case of the pogrom at Makhachkala airport.”
On July 16, the Stavropol Regional Court announced the verdict for seven defendants: Mikail Razakov, Jamal Ibavoov, Bashir Magomedov, Ilyas Nasuyev, Kamil Ibragimkhalilov, Ruslan Murtazaliev and Arslan Magomedov. They were found guilty of mass riots accompanied by violence and destruction of property, failure to comply with transport safety requirements and an attempt on the life of a law enforcement officer. All of them were sentenced to terms of 14 to 15 years, the first three years of which will be served in prison, and the rest of the period in a maximum security penal colony. "In addition, each of them was given an additional punishment in the form of restriction of freedom for a period of two years," the regional prosecutor's office said in a statement on its website.
"The verdict has just been announced, and we have not yet received the text. As soon as we receive the text, we will definitely file an appeal, and if that fails, a cassation appeal," the lawyer of one of the defendants told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent on condition of anonymity.
The lawyer noted that previously all motions of the defense to appoint situational and video technical examinations were rejected. "Also, many witnesses on the prosecution list were not questioned. During the questioning of the victims and witnesses who appeared, it became clear that the crowd was not homogeneous. There was a part of ordinary citizens, and there were more aggressive, instigating ones. The victims were not at the place where my client was, except for one, who received (an injury) before, according to the billing data, my client arrived there," the interlocutor emphasized.
Moreover, according to the defense, the defendants’ presence in the checkpoint area itself did not pose a threat to transport security.
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