22:47, 25 June 2024

Court upholds Marshenkulova’s arrest in absentia

Zalina Marshenkulova. Photo: https://yeltsin.ru/news/zalina-marshenkulova-lyubaya-zhenshina-kotoraya-schitaet-sebya-lichnostyu-eto-feministka/

The Moscow City Court refused to grant the complaint against an arrest in absentia filed by Zalina Marshenkulova, a journalist from Kabardino-Balkaria, accused of justifying terrorism.

The “Caucasian Knot” has reported that on June 21, it became known that Zalina Marshenkulova lodged an appeal against her arrest in absentia in a case on justification of terrorism.

The Moscow City Court refused to grant the appeal filed by the journalist, the author of the “Women’s Power” Telegram channel, against her arrest in absentia, the “OVD Info”* human rights project reported on its Telegram channel.

Let us remind you that, according to the information reported by sources, the criminal case has been instituted against Zalina Marshenkulova for justifying terrorism because of her statements about the death of blogger Vladlen Tatarsky, who perished in an explosion in a cafe in Saint Petersburg on April 2, 2023. However, according to the investigators’ version, Zalina Marshenkulova posted on Telegram her entries justifying terrorism a month before the Vladlen Tatarsky’s death.

Zalina Marshenkulova, who lives in Germany, considers the charges brought against her absurd and associates the criminal prosecution against her with her political position.

*Included by the Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) into the register of foreign agents.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on June 25, 2024 at 02:12 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.

Source: Caucasian Knot