15 December 2015, 03:57
Chechnya: 11 residents of Mairtup detained after arson of ziyarat released
Eleven young people were detained for their acquaintance with suspects of setting a ziyart on fire in the village of Kurchaloy, but released a few days later, local residents report. The staff of the Kurchaloy ROVD (District Interior Division) has left this information without comment.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on November 16 the ziyart (mausoleum) of Saint Yangulbi-Sheikh was set on fire in Kurchaloy. The Mairtup villagers Shamil Ergiev, Djabrail Usumov, Islam Yunusov and Khamzat Uspaev were detained on suspicion of committing the arson. They were brought from village to village, where locals exposed them to public condemnation at village gatherings. On December 1, it became known that that the ziyart was restored.
The above 11 young guys from Mairtup were detained as acquaintances of suspected arsonists, but then were released, said a resident of the Kurchaloy District.
A girl from Mairtup, a student of one of schools in Grozny, said that her fellow villagers were detained in November and set free on December 12.
Medina, a woman from the village of Bachi-Yurt, has added that after the arson of the ziyart in November, in the area policemen detained en masse young men with beards; and after a portrait of one of Kadyrov's relatives was burnt down, mass detention became even more active.
Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.
Source: CK correspondent
