A Moscow journalist was detained in Makhachkala

In Makhachkala, Moscow journalist Vladimir Sevrinovsky was detained on May 28, . Novoe Delo reports This happened when the journalist was filming at the corner of Gamzatov Street and Dakhadaev Avenue in the city center. The reason for the police claims was that a mobile post got into the lens.

Sevrinovsky was taken to the police department in the Soviet district. They delivered him, judging by the video he shot and posted on Facebook , in the trunk. The police demanded that the journalist delete the photos he took for the material about the coronavirus pandemic. “They threatened, cursed, tried to snatch the phone,” says Sevrinovsky in the comments to the Facebook post. The journalist agreed to delete the photos, after which he was released without a protocol.

Novoe Delo notes that the mobile police post, which became the reason for the claims of the employees, is located not far from the place where pickets are held in support of journalist Abdulmumin Hajiyev, who is accused of participating in a terrorist organization (part 2 of article 205.5 of the Criminal Code) and financing its activities (part 4 of article 205.1 of the Criminal Code). True, the publication indicates that the mobile post previously fell into the footage of the filming and the police did not make any claims.

• Vladimir Sevrinovsky is a journalist who writes a lot about the North Caucasus, in 2019 he published a book about travels in the region.
• Abdulmumin Gadzhiev is the editor of the religion department of the Dagestan magazine Chernovik. The investigation believes that the journalist and 10 other people transferred money through charitable foundations to the Dagestan preacher Israil Akhmednabiev (Abu Umar Sasitlinsky), whom the FSB links to ISIS. On May 29, the Supreme Court of Dagestan once again dismissed the defense's complaint about the extension of Gadzhiev's detention. He remains in the pre-trial detention center until 13 June.
• In April, another case was opened against Hajiyev - about participation in the activities of an extremist organization (part 2 of article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). It is about the organizations "Congress of the Peoples of Ichkeria and Dagestan" and "The Supreme Military Majlisul Shura of the United Forces of the Mujahideen of the Caucasus." The defense claims that the journalist did not know about the existence of these organizations and did not take part in them.