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Arrest of Abdulmumin Hajiyev extended for three months
2022-07-09
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] The Southern District Military Court left Abdulmumin Gadzhiev, a journalist with Chernovik, in custody until October 28, accused of financing terrorism.

The "Caucasian Knot " has reported that colleagues of the journalist of the "Chernovik" newspaper Abdulmumin Hajiyev consider the criminal case against him to be persecution. They regularly hold actions in his support. Hajiyev himself insists on innocence.

The indictment alleges that Abdulmumin Hajiyev, with his articles in the Chernovik newspaper, "spread among the population the idea of ​​the need to separate the republics of the" North Caucasus "and establish the norms of Sharia rule in this territory", that he tried to "influence the minds of people in order to involve them in activities of a terrorist organization. At a court hearing on June 18, the Southern District Military Court granted the petition of Hajiyev’s defense to conduct a comprehensive examination of the journalist’s articles, protection that the examination was carried out by Moscow experts.

Chernovik journalist Abdulmumin Hajiyev, as well as the head of the Ansar charity fund Abubakar Rizvanov and Kemal Tambiyev, have been charged with financing terrorism. Investigators believe that they collected 68 million rubles and 200 thousand dollars for the terrorists under the pretext of building mosques and helping poor Muslims.

The investigation connects the defendants with a Dagestan preacher and founder of the Mukhadzhirun Islamic Foundation,
...Mukhadshirun apparently means ‘Living Heart’ ...
known as Abu Umar Sasitlinsky (Israil Akhmednabiev), who has been put on the wanted list in a terrorism case. Hajiyev maintains his innocence, while his colleagues consider the persecution of the journalist to be pressure on him.

The Southern District Military Court at today's session extended until October 28 the arrest of Abdulmumin Gadzhiev, a journalist from the Dagestan newspaper Chernovik, accused of financing terrorism, OVD-Info* reported today.

At the request of the state prosecutor Murad Aliyev, the arrest of Kemal Tambiyev and Abubakar Rizvanov was also extended, the Full HRC 2.0 Telegram channel, which is run by the Memorial Human Rights Center, informed.

Related: A search of the internet of Mukhadzhirun yields an article from 2019 that puts together the foundation, Israil Akhmednabiyev, and fundraising for ISIS. I have no idea how trustworthy the site is: Russia Arrest IS Fundraiser Posing As Charity Worker
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