Police identify authors of video with apology of Vladikavkaz student

In North Ossetia, officers from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) held a preventive conversation with three young people who recorded a video of the female student's apology for a dance. The verification of their actions is underway, the police report. A mother of the student thanked the law enforcement bodies for protection.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that an African student of supplementary courses at a university and a female student of the Vladikavkaz Lyceum voiced public apologies for their dance, which local residents considered indecent. Meanwhile, the police began verifying the female student's complaint about threats.

The 'girl's offenders' were taken to a police station for a preventative conversation. The young people <...> were explained the responsibility for the unlawful distribution of an image of a citizen without his or her consent <...>. At present, further verification measures are underway with regard to them," the North-Ossetian MIA reports on its website today.

Besides, policemen visited the student and her parents and assured them that the student would be protected from any illegal actions, the MIA of North Ossetia reports. A video posted by the police contains the footage in which the student's mother thanks the police for "drawing urgent attention to threats and harassment and stopping the illegal actions."

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on January 29, 2020 at 02:31 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.