The defense appealed the arrest of Alina Dzhikaeva.

An appeal has been filed against the arrest warrant for Alina Dzhikaeva, editor-in-chief of the Telegram channel "Sapa," accused of bribing a police officer in Makhachkala.

As reported by "Kavkazsky Uzel," on April 16, it was reported that Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky Court had ordered a pretrial detention for Alina Dzhikaeva, editor-in-chief of "Sapa." She has been sent to pretrial detention for two months, until June 12, on charges of bribery.

The defense of Alina Dzhikaeva, editor-in-chief of the Telegram channel "Sapa," appealed the decision to place her in pretrial detention, TASS reported today, May 9, citing the records of Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky Court.

According to the case file on the court's website, the appeal was filed on April 28. The date of its hearing, as of 8:53 a.m. Moscow time on May 9, is not indicated in the case file.

As a reminder, on April 14, searches were conducted at the offices of the Telegram channel "Sapa" in Vladikavkaz, and employees were questioned. The Investigative Committee announced that Alina Dzhikayeva and a police officer from Makhachkala were detained on charges of bribery and bribery, respectively. A police officer is also suspected of abuse of power: according to investigators, he provided Dzhikayeva with information about incidents in Dagestan and North Ossetia, along with the personal data of those involved, for money.

Alina Dzhikayeva pleaded not guilty to bribing a police officer, while police officer Shamsutdin Shamsutdinov agreed to the charges of abuse of power and bribery.

Dzhikayeva's case continues the trend of security forces fighting information leaks

There is no political motive in the Alina Dzhikayeva case; it is an episode in the fight against information leaks from law enforcement agencies, analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" explained.

"It's hard to imagine that this persecution "A journalist undesirable to the authorities, because, in my opinion, he's quite a favorable journalist. And the charge itself is, let's say, unfortunately, all too typical of how the media has operated in Russia in recent years," said political scientist and journalist Ruslan Totrov.

In the summer of 2025, Gleb Trifonov, editor-in-chief of the Telegram channel "Baza," and several police officers from various regions of Russia, including the Krasnodar Territory, were arrested on the same charge. The investigation claimed that Trifonov had been buying intelligence from security forces. He denied the accusations.

In June 2025, searches were conducted at the Yekaterinburg editorial office of the Ura.ru news agency in connection with the transfer of Ministry of Internal Affairs official information to journalists. Three journalists were questioned as part of the case of abuse of power by unidentified police officers. It was alleged that law enforcement officers found police-compiled incident reports on the journalists' computers, which they used to prepare their stories. The agency's editor, Denis Allayarov, was later detained a second time on suspicion of bribing a police officer.