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In Makhachkala, mosque parishioners were detained after Friday prayers
On August 25, 17 parishioners of a Salafi mosque were detained in Makhachkala, reports the "Caucasian Knot" . The detainees have already been released.
According to the publication, the police stopped drivers of cars near the mosque and offered to drive to the department. “The car is driving - they stopped, the person is walking - they stopped. Police officers stood in the area of the streets of Gagarin, Hungarian fighters and 26 Baku commissars, ”the publication quotes one of the believers.
The detainees were taken to the Soviet District Police Department. A representative of the press service of the republican Ministry of Internal Affairs told the publication that these were “preventive measures”: “Such operations are periodically carried out. There are nights, there are days.
A similar "operation" was carried out on August 23 and August 11, the newspaper reports.
Detentions of parishioners of a Salafi mosque were repeatedly practiced in Makhachkala in 2016, but stopped after the intervention of a member of the Human Rights Council under President Maksim Shevchenko in August 2016. They have recently been relaunched.