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| Court extends the term of arrest for all three defendants in the case of Hajiyev | |
| 2023-07-21 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] The Southern District Military Court extended the term of detention for three months for Dagestani journalist Abdulmumin Gadzhiev
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on June 22 the state prosecutor demanded that each of the defendants be sentenced to 19 years in prison. The prosecutor ignored the arguments of the experts and the testimonies of witnesses, Hajiyev stated after the meeting. Speaking in court on July 6, he stated that the accusation was unsubstantiated. Abubakar Rizvanov, speaking in the debate at the meeting on July 13, called the accusation unfounded. Dagestani journalist Abdulmumin Gadzhiev, as well as the head of the Ansar charity fund Abubakar Rizvanov and Kemal Tambiev, have been taken into custody since June 2019 on charges of financing terrorism. Investigators believe they collected 68 million rubles and $200,000 for the terrorists under the pretext of building mosques and helping poor Muslims. The investigation connects the defendants with the Dagestan preacher and founder of the Mukhadzhirun Islamic Foundation, Israil Akhmednabiev, known as Abu Umar Sasitlinsky. The defendants plead not guilty. The details of the case are collected in the material of the "Caucasian Knot" "Golunov number two": the main thing about the case of Abdulmumin Hajiyev." The Southern District Military Court extended the term of detention for three months for Dagestani journalist Abdulmumin Gadzhiev and other defendants in the case of financing terrorism - Abubakar Rizvanov and Kemal Tambiev, the Chernovik Telegram channel reported today. The prosecutor's office insisted on extending the arrest, since, according to the public prosecutor, once released, the defendants will continue to engage in criminal activities or may hide. The defense asked to use a preventive measure not related to deprivation of liberty - a written undertaking not to leave the place or house arrest, pointing out that at the debate stage it makes no sense to hide from the court, and the prosecution should provide new arguments to justify the preventive measure, RusNews reported today. As follows from the video published in the Telegram channel of the publication, the defendants also supported the petitions of the defense. "If the grounds for our detention are not disputed, this is because they did not exist at all initially, then what is not there cannot be disputed. And we have never engaged in criminal activity about the fact that we can continue criminal activity in the wild," Abdulmumin Hajiyev said. Kemal Tambiev and Abubakar Rizvanov also agreed with the demands of the defense, but the court extended the arrest of all three defendants. The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that colleagues of the arrested editor of "Chernovik" Abdulmumin Gadzhiev consider his criminal case to be political persecution and regularly hold single-person pickets in his support in the center of Makhachkala - next to the complex of buildings of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB department for Dagestan. On July 17, such actions were carried out by Novoye Delo journalist Idris Yusupov and deputy chief editor of Chernovik Magomed Magomedov. They noted that the speeches of the defendants in the debate provoked an increase in interest in the case of the Dagestan journalist Abdulmumin Gadzhiev, which was shown by the reaction to the pickets. The court verdict in Hajiyev's case will demonstrate whether justice is possible in such cases, or will untie the hands of those who falsify cases, Hajiyev's colleagues stressed. Journalists believe that Gadzhiev suffers because the newspaper voiced "uncomfortable questions" to the authorities and security forces, the "Caucasian Knot" report "Draft" says: threats, criminal cases, murder of the editor-in-chief Related: Abdulmumin Gadzhiev: 2023-06-23 Prosecutor asks for 19 years for the accused in the Hajiyev case Abdulmumin Gadzhiev: 2023-04-09 The court refuses to exclude Rizvanov's testimony from the list of evidence Abdulmumin Gadzhiev: 2023-03-25 A native of the Kuban considered the revenge of the security forces the case of financing terrorism | |
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