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| The court refuses to exclude Rizvanov's testimony from the list of evidence | |
| 2023-04-09 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] The court in the case of Abdulmumin Gadzhiev,
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on March 23 the court rejected the petition of Kemal Tambiev, who asked to recognize as inadmissible evidence his first testimony, obtained under pressure in the absence of a lawyer by agreement. The court decided to consider a similar petition of Abubakar Rizvanov on April 6. Rizvanov, in his petition, asked that his identification from a photo by one of the secret witnesses, which took place with procedural violations, be recognized as inadmissible evidence. The court also notified the participants in the process that the results of an additional examination of the articles by Abdulmumin Hajiyev would not be ready until the end of April. The editor of the Chernovik newspaper, Abdulmumin Hajiyev, as well as the head of the Ansar charity fund, Abubakar Rizvanov and Kemal Tambiyev, have been in custody since June 2019 on charges of financing terrorism. The trial dragged on due to the lack of results of the examination of Gadzhiev's articles, which had previously been re-requested by the prosecution. This circumstance does not allow moving on to debate, the lawyers told the "Caucasian Knot" on March 14. The next session of the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don, held on April 6, lasted about half an hour, Dana Sakiyeva, Gadzhiev's wife, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent today. "The judge rejected Rizvanov's application. First he gave him an assessment, and then he himself said that he was rejecting it, because at this stage he could not give him an assessment. Also at the meeting, they attached Tambiev's diploma on graduating from the Bauman Moscow State Technical University," she said. According to the agreement, the lawyers were not present at the meeting, Hajiyev's lawyer Arsen Shabanov told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. According to him, the results of an additional examination of Hajiyev's texts will be ready at the end of April and, accordingly, the judicial investigation will be closed. "The examination will probably be ready on April 30. And the next meeting is on April 13 at 14:00 [Moscow time]," the lawyer said. At the next meeting, it is planned to extend the arrest of the defendants, Dana Sakieva added. "The only reason for the need to hold a meeting on April 13 is to extend the preventive measure," she said. Recall, on January 10, the court announced the results of an examination of Hajiyev's articles in Chernovik, which was conducted by the Southern Center for Forensic Examination of the Ministry of Justice. The examination found that in the submitted articles there are no signs of inducement to transfer money to a charitable foundation, to overthrow the authorities, signs of propaganda of the ideas of terrorist organizations and incitement of enmity and hatred towards the security forces. This corresponds to the version of the journalist's innocence, the defense said. After that, the prosecution deemed necessary a new examination of the journalist's articles in order to check them for the presence of "any appeals." According to investigators, the defendants 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 Israil Akhmednabiev, a Dagestan preacher and founder of the Mukhadzhirun Islamic Foundation, known as Abu Umar Sasitlinsky, who has been put on the wanted list in a terrorism case. The defendants plead not guilty. The details of the case are collected in the material of the "Caucasian Knot" "Golunov number two": the main thing about the case of Abdulmumin Gadzhiev." Colleagues of Abdulmumin Gadzhiev consider his criminal case to be political persecution and regularly hold single pickets in the center of Makhachkala in support of him. They are attended, in particular, by the founder of "Chernovik" Magdy Kamalov, the deputy editor-in-chief of the publication Magomed Magomedov and the journalist of "New Business" Idris Yusupov . On April 4, journalists noted the active reaction of passers-by and drivers to their pickets. Pickets in support of Gadzhiev remind Makhachkala residents of his case, Magomed Magomedov said on March 20. Earlier, on February 20, Gadzhiev's friends also pointed out that the case of Abdulmumin Gadzhiev is being lost against the background of other news, and such pickets remind people of his fate. Related: Abdulmumin Gadzhiev: 2023-03-25 A native of the Kuban considered the revenge of the security forces the case of financing terrorism Abdulmumin Gadzhiev: 2023-03-15 The prosecution slowed down the trial in the case of Abdulmumin Hajiyev Abdulmumin Gadzhiev: 2023-03-14 Dagestan journalists held pickets in support of Hajiyev | |
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