23:10, 3 October 2024

Court leaves journalist Nadezhda Kevorkova in custody

Nadezhda Kevorkova. Photo: "Chernovik" (Draft) outlet https://chernovik.net/news/zhurnalist-nadezhda-kevorkova-arestovana-na-dva-mesyaca-sud-otkazalsya-doprosit-maksima

The Basmanny Court of Moscow has extended the arrest of Nadezhda Kevorkova, a journalist, until November 4 within a case of justifying terrorism.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on May 7, 2024, the court ruled to detain the 65-year-old Kevorkova (the "Rosfinmonitoring" (Russian Federal Agency for Financial Monitoring) included her into the list of terrorists and extremists). On August 2, the arrest was extended by two months.

"My mother has been kept at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) for six months, it is not clear what for," Vasily Polonsky, Nadezhda's son, has commented on the court ruling in his Telegram channel.

Kevorkova is accused of justifying terrorism for the posts placed in her Telegram channel. The reason was in her reposting of the 2010 material by the journalist Orkhan Djemal about the attack on Nalchik and a publication about the "Taliban" movement*.

The Djemal's text had not been declared illegal earlier; and the arguments that the post in Kevorkova's Telegram channel was accessible to a broad audience are not true, her advocate has emphasized. Nadezhda's publications about the events in Nalchik in 2005 dealt with the torture to which detainees were subjected, and irritated law enforcers, while she "hadn't supported terrorism in any form," Maxim Shevchenko, a journalist and Nadezhda's former husband, has stated.

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

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on October 3, 2024 at 05:16 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.

Source: Caucasian Knot