Journalists Daghestanian newspaper Drafts accused of hostility to the police – in Russia and the CIS – News
February 27, 2009 – 10:09 pmJournalists and editors on the basis of best international festival press “All Russia-2008″ Russian newspaper “Draft” facing criminal charges for incitement to hatred or enmity. Observers note that the persecution of journalists is happening for a number of publications about the corruption of law enforcement officers and that the police plays in the North Caucasus as a catalyst of war.
chief of the Dagestan weekly “Draft” Nadir Isayev have been charged with inciting national, racial or religious hatred for publishing material as “terrorist number one” on 24 January, three journalists charged yesterday.
In the article “terrorist number one” it was that law enforcement agencies have become a catalyst for war in the North Caucasus, said the chief editor of “Drafts”: “The final wording has only one Article – “incitement of ethnic hatred”, 282 th article, and they make me, that I am in a group of persons, that is, in other words the remaining four journalists by prior agreement to carry out actions aimed at inciting hatred and hostility. We are also very want to know what division we have brought “.
This article was published 4 July 2008. It Isayeva told about how to carry out special operation in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the prospectus Akushinskogo, when three people were killed: 29-year-old teacher of the local University Rashid Gazilaliev, his 23-year-old wife of Sand Abdullaeva, graduate student University of Daghestan, and the guests at their resident Buynaksk Ruslan Kazanbiev.
“We have information that they were killed before the special operation, and then simply imitate special”, – transmit words Nadir Isaev radio “Freedom”.
These three have announced involvement in the murder of Chief Buynaksk ROVD, journalist continues: “The Adelgerey Magomedagirov, Minister, at a press conference said that the woman allegedly murdered wives supplied to the militia of bandpodpolya was some procuress, the husband allegedly involved in the assassination of Chief Buynaksk ROVD, and their guest similarly involved in the assassination. Later, when the noise went up, the public began to make noise, the Investigations Committee of Dagestan had to give the conclusion of the investigation, which found that the murder of Chief ROVD Rashid Gazilaliev not involved. This has meant that there is a prospect to make the charge himself the Minister that this was premeditated murder “.
But such charges have not yet been, continues to Nadir Isayeva: “The court refused this, on the ground, to rehabilitate the victims posthumously special. refuse to accept a statement of his father. The father filed a complaint to the Minister for defamation and compensation for moral damages to a million rubles – the court also refused to hear the case. And I know that there is a prospect of the case in the Strasbourg court “.
” Yesterday, in the Investigation Department Investigation Committee under the Russian Prosecutor’s Office of Dagestan was caused by journalists Dagestan weekly “Draft” Magomed Magomedov, and Timur Mustafayev Biyakay Magomedov. They have been charged under Part 1, Art. 282 ( “Incitement to hatred or hostility, as well as humiliation of human dignity”), “- told the” Caucasian knot “Isayeva.
As reported Nadir Isayeva , in the order named ten articles published in the newspaper, one of them written by editor-in-chief, the others – newspaper reporters.
According to an investigator to investigate critical of the investigation department of the investigating committee in Prosecution of the Russian Federation Dagestan Maxim Mirzabalaeva, is the initiation of hostilities “between the main ethnic group of Russia and individuals of Caucasian nationality”, and the social group in this case means the representatives of law enforcement.