Well-known blogger detained in Moscow

Blogger Alaudin Dudko, known in the Internet under the nick ingushetiya_ru, is in Butyrka SIZO (pre-trial prison) as a suspect of storing drugs and explosives. Dudko treats it as provocation.

This became known yesterday in the afternoon, on May 14, when the Movement "For Human Rights" received an answer to its inquiry about Dudko's whereabouts, who disappeared at night of May 5 in Moscow. G. Gafurova, head of the OSU UFSIN (Organizational Structure of the Correction Administration) for Moscow, wrote that Dudko is kept from May 7 at the isolator IZ-77/2 (Butyrka). It follows from her answer that he "is attracted under Article 228, part 2, of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation," that is, accused of drug storage.

The blogger himself, his family and friends are sure that this revenge for his information activities in the Internet.

Alaudin (Alexei) Dudko is a Ukrainian by nationality who adopted Islam. Hi lives in Moscow for the latest 10-15 years. He is married and brings up two children. In his blog, he mainly places materials borrowed from various Internet sources about events in Ingushetia and Northern Caucasus.