During the election campaign in the Chelyabinsk region, died imam | In Russia and CIS | News | Islam and Muslims in Russia and in the world
March 11, 2010 – 12:34 am
On Sunday, March 14 in Russia will hold elections of deputies to the eight regional parliaments, as well as elect mayors and city council members of many municipalities. In the Chelyabinsk region the campaign has already caused casualties.
According IslamNews Imam-Khatib Ozersk Gabdulla Shaimardanov, during the current election campaign, died 73-year-old imam Kunashakskogo area Ulfat Yusupov. Nacala tight control could not stand the heart.
In every village in the Chelyabinsk region is one of the seats in local council average is 6 people. At the head of the chair of the municipal entity aspires for 6-8 people.
In the course of this arduous struggle rivals acting head of the district Kunashakskogo distributed leaflets announcing that the Imam-muhtasibs district supports opponent power. Chapter Kunashakskogo area was not slow to call Ulfat Yusupov. The imam at the time was at a session in the Islamic University of Russia, in Ufa, and the message representative of the authorities that Yusupov involved in advertising the election campaign of the candidates, caught him by surprise.
Congregants kunashakskoy mosque now argue that to the imam is also threatened. During the week an elderly man policy besieged with phone calls. Recalled that it was in his district by the authorities built a large mosque.
Imam changed sim card for mobile phone, but it did not help. He died on March 8, right during the study, of a heart attack. Today, local newspapers report that Ulfat Yusupov went martyred in the way of knowledge. The few mentions that candidates for head of the district, in which are deposits of copper, uranium and gold, used in electoral battles all means.
