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Zelimkhan Bapkhoev
Biography
1 June 2019 he detained in Yakutia on suspicion of involvement in the attack on police officers during a rally against the transfer of land to Chechnya on 27 March. On 3 June, he was sent to a pre-trial detention centre in Nalchik.
On 18 February 2020, he was sentenced to one and a half years in a penal colony. On 23 April, the appeal court replaced the penal colony with a general regime colony.
On 19 June 2020, he was released.
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