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[KavkazUzel] Security forces blocked the exits from the Red Mosque at the Bolshiye Isady market and checked the documents of those gathered, some Muslims were put on buses standing at the exit, believers said, linking the events with the militant attack in Dagestan. A raid was conducted at the mosque to identify violators of migration laws, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Astrakhan Region stated.
As the "Caucasian Knot" reported, several dozen Muslims were taken to police stations without explanation on November 27, 2020, after prayers in an Astrakhan mosque. On the same day, the Muslims detained near the Red Mosque were released home by security forces. The police said that these were measures to search for people hiding from the investigative and judicial authorities. Muslims were offended that such checks were carried out in mosques during Friday prayers. Similar raids had previously taken place in other mosques.
Believers who came to the Juma prayer at the Red Mosque in the Bolshiye Isady market were blocked at the exit. Security forces checked the documents of those leaving the mosque, some were put on a bus parked opposite the entrance to the mosque, one of the believers told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent on condition of anonymity.
Today, the security forces arrived before the prayer began, the believer said. This mosque has three exits, two exits were blocked, one, the central one, was working for exiting after the prayer. There were many security forces there after the prayer, they made two narrow "corridors" - and through them people were let out one by one, checking documents. "Many did not have documents with them," the interlocutor emphasized.
Another believer, who attended Juma prayer today at the Red Mosque on the Great Isads, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that there were a lot of security forces, one bus and several minibuses stood near the mosque. “The bus was full (of detained people). But this is what I saw myself when I got out, at the end, and before that the buses could have already left,” he noted.
They noted that the security forces did not explain to the believers the reasons for what was happening, even when they asked about it. Both visitors to the mosque linked what happened to the terrorist attacks in Dagestan. "But because someone did something somewhere, to come to the mosque and do this... It's unfair," one of the interlocutors complained.
On June 23, Trinity Day, which is one of the main Christian holidays, militants attacked synagogues and an Orthodox church in Derbent and Makhachkala. As a result of the attacks, 21 people were killed and 46 were injured. On June 26, doctors described the condition of six people injured in the militant attack as serious. Sources reported that the 22nd person injured in the militant attack died - a random passerby who happened to be at the synagogue in Derbent. On June 23, the American Institute for the Study of War stated that the cell "Vilayat Kavkaz"* - a division of the "Islamic State"* - was behind the attacks.
One of the believers at the mosque became ill, as follows from the video available to the Caucasian Knot. As follows from the video, the man is lying on the asphalt near the minibus, shaking with convulsions. Other men, including security forces, are trying to help him: they lift his legs, try to open his mouth. “Look at the language, language,” one of the men shouts. One of the security forces calls to move away from the scene of the incident. “Back up, back up,” he says.
The exact number of detainees is unknown. An employee of the press service of the Russian Interior Ministry for the Astrakhan Region linked the inspections at the mosque with raids against migrants. "This event is part of raids to identify violations of migration legislation, which are carried out regularly in Bolshie Isady. There are no other reasons," she told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
Let us recall that following the results of the raids after the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall, security forces reported massive violations of migration legislation. Thus, in the Rostov region, 46 citizens of Central Asia were ordered to leave Russia.
In Rostov-on-Don, 913 people were checked, of which 545 were citizens of the Russian Federation, 150 people received summonses to the military registration and enlistment office, 39 people were brought to administrative responsibility, of which 25 were foreign citizens. Human rights activists called the fight for the legality of migration ostentatious, emphasizing that the actions of security forces and court decisions on fines and expulsion often have neither legal grounds nor logical explanations. In their opinion, sending migrants to the front does not look like a mass phenomenon.
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