17 participants in the riots at Makhachkala airport appealed to the Supreme Court of Dagestan regarding their arrest. In this respect RIA News said Zarema Mamaeva, head of the press service of the Regional Supreme Court.
The Sovetsky District Court of Makhachkala had previously detained all these rebels for about two months.
“The Supreme Court of the Republic of Dagestan received 17 appeal materials regarding the repression of 17 local residents accused under Part 2 of Art. “Article 212 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Participation in mass riots”) is part of the criminal case initiated after the mass riots at Makhachkala international airport,” Mamaeva said.
According to him, the high authority has already reviewed nine materials and all of them have been approved.
On October 29, at a time when the situation in the Middle East was deteriorating, mass riots occurred at Makhachkala airport due to a regular flight arriving from Tel Aviv to Dagestan. Hundreds of people entered the airport building and the airport. Law enforcement later managed to get them out. Police officers detained 201 people following riots at Makhachkala airport.
Dagestan authorities and religious leaders condemned the incident and attributed it to external provocation. Also in the Kremlin connected Unrest in Makhachkala due to “external influence”.
Previously SK appreciated Damage from riots at the airport amounted to hundreds of millions of rubles.