Buynaksk resident accused of calling for mass riots

A comment on a social network left in September 2022, when mass protests against mobilization were taking place in Dagestan, became the basis for a criminal case against a young man from Buinaksk.

Dagestani investigators have referred to court a criminal case against a 25-year-old resident of Buinaksk, suspected of calling for mass riots.

According to the prosecution, in September 2022, the accused published a comment on the Internet calling for “an unlimited number of people to participate in mass riots, as well as to provide armed resistance to government officials,” according to a message on the official Telegram channel of the Investigative Committee.

The department did not specify whether the young man agreed with the charges brought against him. The article he is charged with (Part 3 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) provides for up to two years of imprisonment or forced labor.

Caucasian Knot wrote that in September 2024, a similar charge with the same wording was brought against a 24-year-old resident of Khasavyurt.

In September 2022, security forces violently dispersed protests in Makhachkala against mobilization. On September 25, between 100 and 300 people came out to the protest. Security forces also detained a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent and took him away from the scene of the protest. The journalist managed to report that at least seven severely beaten detainees were being transported in the car with him, one of whom was completely in blood. On the same day, a mass protest against mobilization took place in the village of Endirey in the Khasavyurt district of Dagestan. According to video recordings made by eyewitnesses, at least several dozen people came out to the protest. Security forces tried to disperse the protesters with machine gun fire.

On September 26, 2022, opponents of mobilization, at least a hundred people, again gathered on the main square in Makhachkala. Later, a scuffle and arrests began there; according to journalists, at least 20 people were detained. On the same day, arrests were also made at the protest in Khasavyurt. "Kavkazsky Uzel" prepared a report "Mobilization: How the South is Protesting Russia".

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