Hide

Russia forbade the journalist of Novaya Gazeta to a citizen of Uzbekistan, Vecherdi Nurmatov (pseudonym Ali Feruz) to leave for one of the European countries. He wrote about this on his Facebook page.

“Today, the consul of one European state met with the migration service of Russia. Russia refuses to legalize me here and does not allow this European country to take me out,” Feruz noted. “I don’t understand what they achieve and what they want. I don’t understand at all. I already got used to the idea that I can’t allow me to live here. But to leave and live in another place?”

On March 16, Feruza was detained by police and delivered to OP "Presnya". The police said that the reason for the detention was a violation of their immigration rules (Article 18.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The journalist drew up an administrative protocol and took a subscription about the turnout to the court. The sanction under this article provides for the mandatory expulsion from Russia in addition to the fine.

“As far as we know, this was done at the request of the Uzbek side, from where he left several years ago when the local special services tried to recruit him,” said Dmitry Muratov, editor -in -chief of the publication. According to him, the biography of Feruz was previously thoroughly checked by the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, for two years of work in the editorial office there were also no complaints about it.

"At present, Feruz has legal grounds to be in Russia, since I recently received a letter from the Ministry of Internal Affairs on the cancellation of the decision to refuse to provide it with a temporary asylum. Until the application for asylum is considered again, it may remain in Russia," the New "emphasized.

On March 17, Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin did not receive the appeal of Feruz with a request for asylum in Russia. "We heard and saw media reports that he allegedly turned, but we did not receive any appeals, this is the only thing I can state," Peskov said. “We did not receive any papers, I don’t know that some were coming to this.”

Meanwhile, Novaya Gazeta has documentary evidence that the request for Feruz in the presidential administration was not only received, but also responded to him, crossing it to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The editorial office received the response from the department in January.

On May 4, RIA Novosti reported that the Ministry of Internal Affairs finally refused Feruza to the shelter . Now the journalist is obliged to leave Russia. “If he does not, he must be placed in a temporary detention center and subsequent deportation,” the agency’s source noted. According to him, in 2008, Feruz was a defendant in a criminal case. The resident of Tambov, convicted of terrorism, Alexei Nikitin stated that it was Feruz who involved him in extremist activity. "Nurmatov was distributed by the Printing Publication of Muhammad Jamil Zin" Islamic Akida on the Holy Quran and a reliable Sunnah ", introduced by the decision of the Lefortovo District Court of Moscow in April 2015 in the list of extremist materials. He was engaged in the subsequent employment of Nikitin at the beginning of the recruited group of the Islamic State," the source said.

According to the source, Feruz is illegally in Russia for more than five years. “Recently, with the help of Novaya Gazeta and lawyers, I tried to receive an official status in Russia, which is unrealistic with such a past and in the absence of legal grounds,” the source said. “The police of the Novaya Gazeta has begun on the fact of illegal employment of a foreigner who has no patent in Russia.”