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Ingush rights group loses bid to be removed from ‘foreign agent list’

Moscow’s Zamoskvoretsky District Court has rejected an appeal by Ingush human rights group Mashr to be removed from a government list of ‘foreign agents’, Caucasian Knot reports. Mashr was added to the list in December 2015, after the group’s offices and the house of it’s director, Magomed Mutsolgov, were searched, Caucasian Knot writes. This was justified at the time as a ‘fight against dissent’. Other human rights groups in Ingushetia say the decision against Mashr is politically mot