KBR resident sentenced to 9 years for preparing sabotage and criticizing SVO

The Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria sentenced Salikh Osmanov, a 40-year-old resident of the village of Tyrnyauz, to 9 years in a maximum security colony. He was found guilty of preparing sabotage, as well as a negative attitude towards the SVO and the authorities of the Russian Federation. The man did not admit guilt, claiming falsification of the case and pressure on him, the Memorial Human Rights Center reported.

According to investigators, Salikh Osmanov and two accomplices were preparing sabotage near the railway bridge over the canal. Lenin in Prokhladnensky district. All three adhered to radical movements of Islam and had a negative attitude towards Russian government authorities, law enforcement officers and the “special military operation” in Ukraine.

The accusation is based on the testimony of two classified witnesses and correspondence in the Viber messenger expressing a negative attitude towards the war in Ukraine. At the same time, one of the witnesses, Tahir Lokyaev, told how the security forces threatened him and put pressure on him.

According to Osmanov, in the FSB building they put a bag over his head, handcuffed his hands, threatened him and demanded that he admit guilt. The defense of the convicted person filed an appeal to the 3rd Court of Appeal of General Jurisdiction of Russia.

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