Court in Dagestan rejects journalist's lawsuit on illegal detention

The Soviet District Court of Makhachkala refused to satisfy the claim of the deputy editor-in-chief of Chernovik Magomed Magomedov against the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The journalist asked that the actions of the police related to his detention be recognized as illegal, the Memorial Human Rights Center said.
  
On January 16, 2023, Magomedov was detained while holding a one-man picket in support of the arrested journalist Abdulmumin Gadzhiev. First, the police forbade Magomedov to picket. Later, he was surrounded by eight security officials - one of them attacked and took away the poster.

The journalist was taken to the police station and held for almost five hours without explanation. The police officers did not introduce themselves, did not say on what grounds they had detained Magomedov, and did not initiate proceedings against him for an administrative offense.

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