01:06, 13 September 2025

The Cassation Court has reduced the sentences of three defendants in the Makhachkala airport riots case

The Fourth Cassation Court in Krasnodar has reduced the sentence for three defendants in the criminal case on the riots at the Makhachkala airport.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel" wrote, the decision of the Armavir City Court announced in August 2024 was the first sentence for participants in the mass riots at the Makhachkala airport. Anvarbek Atayev, Islam Ibragimov, Magomed Omaraskhabov, Salik Ramazanov received 6 years and 4 months in prison, Rabadan Radzhabov - 9 years.

The toughening of charges against already convicted participants in the riots at the airport of the capital of Dagestan and the harsh nature of the sentences themselves emphasized the authorities' intentions to prevent such mass protests in the future, experts believe.

The fact that on September 11, the Fourth Cassation Court considered the cassation appeal on the airport case of the first convicted five was written on the evening of September 12 by the chairman of the public monitoring commission of Dagestan, Shamil Khadulaev, in his Telegram channel.

"The Armavir City Court of First Instance gave three of them 6.4, one 6.6 and one 9 years, since he also had Article 318. The appellate court left the sentence unchanged. And now, unexpectedly for the parents, who no longer hoped for anything good, the court mitigated the sentence and excluded aggravating circumstances - conspiracy," writes Khadulaev.

According to him, Salikh (Salik) Ramazanov and Muhammad (Magomed) Omaraskhabov's term was reduced by six months (5 years and 10 months), and Rabadan Radzhabov, who was initially sentenced to 9 years, had 4 months removed. Two more defendants in the case did not file cassation appeals.

Mass riots at the Makhachkala airport occurred on October 29, 2023, due to a report of the arrival of a plane with passengers from Israel. More than 20 people were injured in the riots, including nine police officers. 1,200 people were brought to administrative responsibility. What happened at the Uytash airport and how the investigation is proceeding is described in the "Caucasian Knot" report "The case of the pogrom at the Makhachkala airport".

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Translated automatically via Google translate from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/415362