The court dismissed the case against a correspondent detained while filming in Dagestan

The Dmitrovsky City Court of the Moscow Region terminated the administrative case under the article on violation of the self-isolation regime against the photographer Konstantin Salomatin. This was reported by the press service of the Memorial Human Rights Center.

The judge referred to the lack of corpus delicti.

Salomatin and Memorial's lawyer Natalya Morozova, who represents him, believe that the security forces deliberately hindered the journalist's professional activities and violated his right to freedom of speech.

• in Khasavyurt in the Republic of Dagestan were detained On June 3 , journalist and photographer Konstantin Salomatin, as well as a journalist from the Netherlands, a cameraman and a fixer (an assistant to the film crew) . Correspondents were engaged in a story about the difficult situation in Dagestan due to the spread of the coronavirus. In the department, the detainees showed editorial tasks to law enforcement officers, but the police drew up two protocols against journalists: under the article on violation of the regime of self-isolation and on violation of the regime of the counter-terrorist operation.