INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
activist Fayil Alsynov.According to the independent news outlet SOTAvision, around 1,500 protesters gathered at Salawat Yulayev Square in
Ufa, singing songs, dancing and calling for the release of Alsynov, who this week was sentenced to four years in prison on charges of
attendees over a loudspeaker that they would be arrested for holding an unauthorized event.Videos of the protest shared on social media
rally ended at 1:00 pm local time, according to independent media.There were also reports of outages across the region for the WhatsApp and
Telegram messengers, and multiple sources inside Bashkortostan confirmed with The Moscow Times that neither of the two apps appeared to work
Alsynov has been engaged in activist work in Bashkortostan, one of Russia's 21 ethnic republics, for over 15 years, speaking in defense of
Bashkir national organizations and movements, including serving as chairman of the Bashkir national organization Bashqort, which was
has been unjustly branded as a "foreign agent" by the Russian government
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