09:44, 6 February 2015

Rostov court sentences Ingush natives for interethnic conflicts

The court in Rostov-on-Don has sentenced two natives of the Republic of Ingushetia to 6 months of imprisonment each on charges of inflicting bodily harm under the motive of ethnic hatred.

According to the Department for the Rostov Region of the Russian FSB, Vakha Kostoev, born in 1996, a native of the city of Nazran, and Akhmed Timurziev, born in 1995, a native of the city of Malgobek, being students at one of Rostov higher schools, regularly insulted their hostel neighbours on ethnic grounds.

As a result of one of the conflicts, one of their neighbours received a brain concussion, the "Rostov News Agency" reports.

In June 2014, the Department for Rostov-on-Don of the Russian MIA opened a criminal case against Kostoev and Timurziev. However, the latter went hiding in the territory of the Republic of Ingushetia and were declared wanted. In September 2014, the two were detained and convoyed to Rostov, the "161.ru" reports.

The Oktiabrsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don found Kostoev and Timurziev guilty and sentenced them to six months each in a colony-settlement.