23:33, 6 May 2024

Journalist Nadezhda Kevorkova detained for post about attack on Nalchik

Nadezhda Kevorkova. Photo: youtube.com/Alif TV https://www.m24.ru/news/obshchestvo/06052024/689401

Investigators have accused Nadezhda Kevorkova, a journalist, a defence witness in the case of the attack on Nalchik, of justifying terrorism. The reason was in her repost of the journalist Orkhan Djemal's text about this attack and her publication about the "Taliban"* movement.

Kevorkova was a defence witness within the case of an attack on Nalchik. In particular, in March 2013, she testified in favour of the defendant Rasul Kutaev.

The armed attack on Nalchik, the capital of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), was undertaken on October 13, 2005. During the attack, 35 law enforcers and 15 civilians perished.

"Nadezhda Kevorkova is charged with a post placed in her Telegram channel back in 2018, in which she reposted a text by her close friend Orkhan Djemal. He published his text about the attack on Nalchik back in 2010, and after his murder, Nadezhda reposted this text in her page," wrote Kaloi Akhilgov, an advocate, wrote in his Telegram channel.

Kevorkova is also accused of justifying the activities of the "Taliban"* movement; the reason was in her post placed in her Telegram channel in 2021.

*By the Russian Supreme Court the movement has been recognized to be a terrorist organization.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on May 6, 2024 at 05:25 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.

Source: Caucasian Knot