- Id
- 81
- Date
- 02/09/2008
- First
- Telman
- Surname
- ALISHAYEV
- Sex/Age
- M
- Incident
- homicide
- Motive
- J
- Place
- car
- Job
- journalist
- Medium
- TV
- Federal District Plus
- North Caucasus
- Street, Town, Region
- Makhachkala, Dagestan
- Freelance
- no
- Local/National
- local, TV Chirkei
- Other Ties
- Cause of Death
- murder, shot
- Legal Qualification
- 105 (murder)
- Impunity
- investigation
Telman (Abdullah) Alishayev, a journalist with the TV-Chirkei channel, was shot in Makhachkala on 2 September 2008. Two men approached the car in which he was sitting in the suburb of Separatorny and opened fire. Alishayev was taken to Dagestan’s central hospital with a wound to the head and the shoulder and despite an operation died the next morning.
Alishayev presented the “Peace to your home” programme on the TV-Chirkei Muslim TV channel, and was among the authors of a documentary film “Everyday Wahhabism”. After the film was shown he received threats. The Dagestan department for internal affairs considers that Alishayev’s active opposition to Wahhabism as a journalist was the reason for his death.
A criminal case was instigated under two articles of the criminal code, “Murder“ (105) and the “illegal possession and carrying of a weapon“ (220). There are suspects who have been identified by witnesses to the killing. Speaking on radio station Echo Moskvy the chairman of the Russian Union of Journalists Vsevolod Bogdanov said that such tragedies, first and foremost, “showed the lack of stability in the region and that the authorities became drawn in criminal feuds”.