In Kazan, during a search on August 17, the security forces seized not only bank cards and equipment, but also a foreign passport from Idel.Realii columnist Marina Yudkevich. This is reported by the human rights project «Network Freedoms».
A month ago, Yudkevich was diagnosed with cancer — on August 24, she was supposed to begin emergency treatment in an Israeli clinic, but without documents she cannot leave the country.
Searchs in the case of justifying terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code), in addition to Yudkevich, were carried out at the homes of six Kazan journalists, including the authors of Idel.Realii Aisyla Kadyrova and Iskander Yasaveyev. Investigative actions were related to the publication of a video on the YouTube channel «Objective-TV» about the attack on the Russian ambassador in Warsaw — on May 9, he was doused with red paint.
The search warrant for Kadyrova said that the video was related Tatar-Bashkir service of Radio Liberty. Kadyrova herself claims that she knew nothing about Obektiv-TV before the search. The Tatar-Inform agency wrote that they found currency, foreign bank cards and stickers «with anti-Russian slogans, fascist symbols and» bloody » Letters V and Z.
Marina Yudkevich's passport was confiscated by an employee of the Center «E» Albert Gallyamov, despite the fact that the investigation recognized her as a witness who had nothing to do with the publication of the video about the ambassador. According to human rights activists, investigator Aidar Nurullin refused to consider the request for the return of the document, so the lawyers filed a complaint with the prosecutor's office of the Republic of Tatarstan. mz-publish-context-cite__image» alt=»1″ />Case « Idel. Reality. Searches of journalists in Kazan