In Dagestan, the police did not initiate a case of threats to kill a journalist

In Dagestan, the police refused to open a criminal case following a death threat against the editor-in-chief of the Daptar portal, Svetlana Anokhina. She was threatened by a man who introduced himself as a relative of the head of the police department. this The publication itself reports .

The case was not initiated due to lack of evidence. Anokhin did not receive an official notice of the refusal. She learned about the decision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs from the press service of the department.

On July 22, contacted a man who introduced himself as Dalgat Umakhanov the chief editor. The caller stated that he had "orders to deal with all feminists." Anokhina invited him to meet, after which he threatened to kill her and declared that he was the brother of the head of the Soviet District Police Department of Makhachkala.

The journalist filed a complaint with the police, attaching a recording of the conversation. She also sent a WhatsApp message to the number from which she received the call. The Getcontact application identified the owner of the number as Rashid Abdulmuslimov.

After submitting an application to the prosecutor's office, Abdulmuslimov called the journalist. He claimed that at the time of the call he was driving from Moscow to Makhachkala with a friend and did not know who called her. Later, he demanded not to disturb him, allegedly the police looked at the billing from the number and made sure that someone else called Anokhina. The journalist herself was not provided with a billing.

A few days after the journalist submitted the application, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic published a post on Instagram. It argued that the threats could have been made "in the heat of the moment or in the heart", out of ignorance of the law and with no real intention of carrying out the threat.

On September 20, Svetlana Anokhina left Dagestan, reported on September 19. the Caucasian Knot

“I took additional security measures and left Dagestan for a while. Since I did not receive a decision to refuse to initiate a criminal case, I cannot apply to the prosecutor's office, to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the republic, ”Anokhina said.

• The human rights publication Daptar covers situations related to violence and infringement of women's rights in the North Caucasus. Svetlana Anokhina is also the author of the project “There was such a city” about the inhabitants of Makhachkala and an activist of the “Our City” movement.