23:01, 5 December 2024

Court leaves journalist Nadezhda Kevorkova under arrest

Nadezhda Kevorkova. Screenshot of a photo by the RusNews posted on November 22, 2024 https://t.me/rusnews/62683

The Moscow City Court had denied the defence's appeal against the extension of the arrest of the journalist, Nadezhda Kevorkova, accused of justifying terrorism.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on November 22, the Basmanny Court of Moscow left Kevorkova in custody until January 5. On December 3, it became known that Kevorkova's case was returned from the Prosecutor's Office (PO) to investigators for eliminating inaccuracies in the formulation of charges.

Nadezhda is accused of justifying terrorism for her two posts placed in her Telegram channel: a repost of a text by journalist Orkhan Djemal dated 2010 about the attack on Nalchik, and her post about the "Taliban" Movement*.

Kaloi Akhilgov, an advocate, does no expect any major revision of the case. "The PO has returned the charge to investigators because of an inaccuracy – namely, the exact place of committing the crime was not indicated. Therefore, investigators have reopened the case; they will eliminate the violation indicated by the PO," the advocate has explained.

The Djemal's text was not recognized as illegal, while the arguments that the post in Kevorkova's Telegram channel was accessible to a broad audience are not true, the defence stated earlier.

**By the Russian Supreme Court the "Taliban" Movement has been de jure 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 December 4, 2024 at 10:38 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.

Author: Nakhim Shelomanov

Source: CK correspondent