M. Mutsolgov: ANCO "Mashr" is under permanent pressure of the authorities

The Autonomous Non-Commercial Organization "Mashr" is the first human rights organization in Ingushetia engaged in rendering legal aid to the population, executing public control of the observance of human rights and freedoms in the territory of the Republic of Ingushetia.

Magomed Mutsolgov, head of the ANCO "Mashr" and a talker to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot," has stated that during a year, the procuracy has three times inspected the Organizations, its documents at the tax inspection, accounts, financing and accounting. In his words, this all has started after our submission of a notification on holding a picket in memory of Anna Politkovskaya in Nazran.

"For this reason we were excluded from the list of grant-takers on the outcomes of the contest held by the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation. It was done by the Administration of the President of Russia. And most of the public figures of the Republic and human rights activists believe that this was result of the work of local powers," Mr. Mutsolgov has said.

According to him, the pressure is also executed by the threat that "any moment they can rush in with a search, as it happened with Murad Yandiev, an employee of our Organization."

Magomed Khasultanov, CK correspondent