Chechnya
Moscow court sentences Chechen man who fought police in viral video to five years in prison
Chechnya native Sayd-Mukhammad Dzhumayev (tried under the name Mikail Markhiev), made famous in a viral video that showed him fending off truncheon-wielding riot police during a protest against the detention of opposition figure Alexey Navalny, was found guilty of ‘using violence against a representative of the authorities’ and sentenced to five years in a penal colony. The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow made its ruling on Thursday. In January, immediately after his fight with riot police
