30 March 2020, 22:50
Protests in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev to be held online
Friends and colleagues of Abdulmumin Gadjiev retract the idea to hold solo pickets because of the coronavirus quarantine. The activists called on people to support the Dagestani journalist by writing posts in social networks and instant messengers.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that colleagues and friends of Dagestani journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev regularly hold solo pickets with the demand to release him.
Abdulmumin Gadjiev, an editor of the religion department of the "Chernovik" website, who has been kept under arrest since June 2019, pleads not guilty. On March 12, the court extended his arrest until May 13.
Today, no solo pickets have been held in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev because of the coronavirus quarantine measures. "Today, mosques, shops, markets, other public places are closing. We have no right to risk the health of other people, your health, by asking you to join us. Our sense of protest against the arbitrariness to which Abdulmumin Gadjiev is subjected has not disappeared. We demand to free him and close this absurd criminal case, filled with insinuations of investigators and detectives," declares the editorial board in a today's post on the "Chernovik" (Draft) website.
The editorial board has called on Internet users to post in social networks and instant messengers messages, photos, videos, and, if desired, stories with hashtags #FreedomAbdulmumin.
"We decided to call on people to express their protest online during this period," the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by Magomed Magomedov, the deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Chernovik".
This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on March 30, 2020 at 04:16 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.
Author: Ilyas Kapiev Source: CK correspondent
