06 May 2021, 18:56
Ingush activist rejects guarding despite blood feud announced by Kadyrov people
Ingush law enforcers have offered state protection to Magomed Khazbiev, an activist, against whom Magomed Daudov, Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, and Adam Delimkhanov, a State Duma MP, have announced a blood feud. The activist said that he refused from law enforcers' services.
On May 4, Khazbiev stated that after his video criticizing Chechen authorities for their harsh reaction to the terror act in Grozny, Daudov and Delimkhanov declared blood feud to him.
On December 28, 2020, policemen were attacked in Grozny. One of them died, the other was seriously wounded. Both attackers were killed – they proved to be Timurziev brothers, natives of Ingushetia. Relatives of the deceased policeman declared a blood feud to Timurzievs' relatives; and relatives of the wounded policeman declared enmity with the Timurziev and Sultygov teips (family clans). On January 7, 2021, members of the Timurziev-Sultygov teip reconciled in Chechnya with relatives of perished and wounded policemen.
The reason for the announcement of blood feud to Khazbiev was the video posted on the Instagram entitled "Magomed Khazbiev's appeal to Chechen leadership, cheap bloggers and provocateurs", the activist himself has explained. "In the video I criticized those who, in my opinion, offend the Ingush people and incite interethnic hatred," Mr Khazbiev has stated.
He has stressed that he treats the Chechen and Ingush peoples as equal, noting that he will remain unconvinced and will continue defending his viewpoint.
The "Caucasian Knot" has also reported that in July 2019, Khazbiev was set free from the colony in Kabardino-Balkaria, where he had served his term on charges of illegal firearm possession and insulting the then head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Evkurov. In November 2019, Khazbiev was detained after calling people to come out to a rally in Magas against the persecution of leaders of Ingush protests.
This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on May 6, 2021 at 01:09 am MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.
Source: CK correspondent
