Nadezhda Kevorkova was sent to the isolation ward; tomorrow a preventive measure will be chosen for her

Well-known human rights journalist Nadezhda Kevorkova was charged with justifying terrorism. Today she was detained and sent to the Moscow temporary detention center. Tomorrow they will choose a preventive measure.

Lawyer Kaloy Akhilgov said that Kevorkova is charged with two counts. In the first episode, she is accused of publishing text in her personal Telegram channel in 2018. She reposted the text of her murdered friend Orkhan Dzhemal about the attack in Nalchik.

The second episode is related to the justification of the activities of the military-political Taliban movement, recognized as terrorist in Russia. The provocative publication was posted by her in 2021.

Notably, senior Russian officials are hosting Taliban leaders. Back in 2018, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that “the Russian Federation does not hide the fact that it maintains contacts with the Taliban, this is part of Afghan society.”

“My mother was detained today and after some time she will be taken to a temporary detention center in the North-Eastern Administrative District (this is not an arrest yet). My mother is not guilty of anything. She is a journalist,” wrote her son, journalist Vasily Polonsky, who worked on the Dozhd TV channel and Novaya Gazeta.

Nadezhda Kevorkova collaborated with Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Russia Today, Novaya Gazeta and other publications. She worked as a reporter in the Middle East, including Syria, Iraq, and the Gaza Strip.

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