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2022-09-09 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Two witnesses in the Gadzhiev case withdrew their testimony
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] Prosecution witnesses Aida Khaita and Sultan Omarov stated in court in the case of Abdulmumin Gadzhiev, Abubakar Rizvanov and Kemal Tambiev that the testimony they had given during the investigation was untrue.
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. In July, the Southern District Military Court kept Hajiyev in custody until October 28.
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, known as Abu Umar Sasitlinsky (Israil Akhmednabiev), who has been put on the wanted list in a terrorism case.
| Mukhadshirun apparently means ‘Living Heart’, for what that’s worth. Apparently the foundation and Mr. Akhmednabiev have been connected to fundraising for ISIS... |
Hajiyev maintains his innocence, while his colleagues consider the persecution of the journalist to be pressure on him.
On September 8, the Southern District Military Court continued hearing on the case of Abdulmumin Gadzhiev, Kemal Tambiev and Abubakar Rizvanov. Two witnesses were interrogated at the meeting, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reported.
Prosecution witness Aida Khaita was interrogated via videoconference. She said that she did not know any of the accused.
Abubakar Rizvanov asked the witness if she knew Israil Akhmednabiev, to which she also replied in the negative.
Haita refused to answer questions from the prosecution. After that, the state prosecutor filed a motion to read out Haita's written testimony, which she gave to the investigator during the preliminary investigation. The court, conferring on the spot, granted the motion of the prosecution.
The affidavit of the witness says that in 2013 she married one of the active fighters of a terrorist organization operating in Syria, and subsequently decided to move there to her husband. While in Syria, her husband began to beat her, demanding to commit a terrorist act by self-detonation. In 2014, Haita decided to flee the camp of the supporters of the terrorist organization, but was unable to escape, according to the testimony.
The witness heard from the wives of the militants living in the camp that the products from which the food was prepared were provided by the structures of Abu Umar Sasitlinsky, namely the Mukhajirun Charitable Foundation, Khaita said. The witness nevertheless managed to escape from Syria, she ended up in Turkey, from where she was deported to Russia in 2019, follows from her written testimony.
After reading out the testimony, the court asked the witness if she confirmed her written testimony, to which the witness replied in the negative.
When asked by Rizvanov if Haita had ever heard of the Mukhajirun Foundation, she answered in the negative.
The witness Sultan Omarov was also interrogated at the meeting at the request of the state prosecution . When asked by the prosecutor whether Omarov knew Akhmednabiev, he answered in the negative.
Omarov also said that he only knows about Hajiyev that he was detained from media reports, and he read the Chernovik newspaper while in prison.
The prosecutor filed a motion to read out the written testimony of witness Omarov, referring to the fact that there are contradictions in his oral and written testimony. The judge granted the prosecutor's request and read out Omarov's affidavit. According to Omarov's affidavit, Abu Umar Sasitlinsky's lectures caused him to become a supporter of radical Salafism at the age of 19. Subsequently, Omarov wanted to join one of the terrorist organizations fighting in Syria against Bashar al-Assad, the witness said.
He said in his testimony that he was detained at the Makhachkala airport while trying to fly to Egypt, from where he planned to get to Syria. When asked by the prosecutor whether Omarov confirms his written testimony, the witness answered in the negative.
Omarov only confirmed that his detention took place at the Makhachkala airport.
The refusal of witnesses to answer questions during the trial does not affect the trial in any way, since the court will pay attention and, if necessary, read out the testimony that the witness gave during the investigation, Gadzhiev's lawyer Arsen Shabanov believes .
The defense is awaiting the results of the expertise on Hajiyev's articles, he told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, without naming the estimated time frame for its completion.
At a court hearing on June 18, the Southern District Military Court granted the petition of Gadzhiev's defense to conduct a comprehensive examination of the journalist's articles, but did not agree with the defense's demand that Moscow experts conduct the examination.
WITNESS CITED FOR INACCURACIES IN AFFIDAVIT
Witness Shamil Kadyrov was interrogated at a meeting in the Rostov District Military Court on August 25 . He said that he did not know any of the accused, and he knew nothing about this criminal case.
On June 26, 2019, the North Caucasian (now Southern) military court found Shamil Kadyrov, a resident of Dagestan, guilty of aiding in the financing of terrorism and sentenced him to eight years in prison. According to the prosecution, he transferred more than 800,000 rubles to members of the Islamic State terrorist organization banned in Russia by a court. He did not admit guilt. In November 2019, the Supreme Court of Russia upheld the sentence against Shamil Kadyrov.
The state prosecutor asked Kadyrov if he knew Ravshan Aliyev, to which he replied that Aliyev was his sister's husband. The witness said that Ravshan Aliyev married his sister at the end of 2008, they lived in Azerbaijan. He explained that until 2013, the sister's husband came to Dagestan to work, and in 2013 he came to Dagestan, spent no more than a month in Makhachkala, and then left for Moscow.
Kadyrov said that at the end of 2014 Ravshan Aliyev returned from Moscow to Dagestan and began working in the republic. According to the witness, he heard about Abu Umar Sasitlinsky and saw him on TV.
He also said that in 2016, while in Turkey, he heard bad reviews from Ravshan Aliyev about Israil Akhmednabiev.
The state prosecutor requested that the interrogation of Kadyrov be made public, citing the fact that the testimony given by Kadyrov earlier and in the courtroom differed significantly. The defense of the defendants opposed the reading of the testimony. Rizvanov noted that the testimony, which the prosecution requests to be read out, was given by Kadyrov in another criminal case on February 2, 2019, before the initiation of a criminal case against Gadzhiev, Tambiev and the defendant himself. However, the court ruled to satisfy the prosecutor's request and to read out the testimony given by Kadyrov earlier to the investigator.
After the testimony was read out, the judge asked Kadyrov whether he confirmed the testimony. Kadyrov said that he did not confirm the testimony, as "many things are wrong" in them, but noted that the names given in the document are correct.
Kadyrov pointed out that he was never interested in the events that take place in the world, as indicated in the testimony, since "there were enough of his own problems." The witness statement incorrectly lists the year he worked at the construction site.
Abubakar Rizvanov asked, referring to Kadyrov's written testimony, how he understood that Ravshan Aliyev was related to terrorist and illegal armed groups. The witness explained that Aliyev had trade relations with certain people in Turkey, he bought and sold clothes. Aliyev himself said that they were supporters of a terrorist organization, but at the same time, my brother's husband had only trade relations with them, Kadyrov said.
Recall that colleagues of Abdulmumin Hajiyev regularly hold single pickets in the center of Makhachkala in support of him, at which they also demand to stop the persecution of journalists and release political prisoners. On September 5, as on August 29, pickets were held by Chernovik's deputy editor-in-chief Magomed Magomedov and Novoye Delo's journalist Idris Yusupov. Residents and guests of Makhachkala showed interest in the pickets, his colleagues said. The police took written explanations from the picketers, but did not interfere with the protests.
The case of Abdulmumin Gadzhiev has similarities with the attempted criminal prosecution of Moscow journalist Ivan Golunov, participants in an online discussion held on the "Caucasian Knot" on June 27, 2019, said. More details about the Gadzhiev case can be found in the material " Golunov number two": the main thing about the case of Abdulmumin Gadzhiev ".
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