In Makhachkala, police detained journalists Magomed Magomedov and Magdy Kamalov, who were going to hold one-man pickets in support of Chernovik correspondent Abdulmumin Gadzhiev. Colleagues of the detainees reported this.
According to Chernovik, the journalists were taken to the Sovetsky District Department of Internal Affairs of Makhachkala. Before that, the police took away their passports, substantiating this with information that “some people with sticks go to the square to attack the Christmas tree,” the newspaper reports.
Single pickets in support of Hajiyev were announced by Chernovik itself. The journalist has been in jail since June 2019. He is accused of participation in a terrorist organization and financing of terrorism. According to investigators, he published articles in the newspaper about charity in the Ansar Foundation and deliberately did not mention that «part of the money collected by the foundation was directed to continue the activities of a terrorist organization operating in Syria.»
In addition, the journalist was accused of being from 2009 to 2013, together with two other defendants in the case participated in the work of the Congress of the Peoples of Ichkeria and Dagestan, and also transferred 16,000 rubles for terrorist purposes.
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