Tashkent police have begun reviewing the actions of a blogger with nearly 600,000 Instagram followers after several days of public outrage over a video that can be read as a call to kill singer Mubinlolo.

Tashkent police department said on the evening of Nov. 6 that the criminal investigation unit of the Almazar district police department had identified the author and that the situation was under its control. The statement did not name the blogger, referring only to “one of the Instagram users,” and did not say whether he had been detained.

A pre-investigation inquiry is under way, and a lawful decision will be made once it ends, the department said. It urged citizens to act responsibly and obey the law when sharing information online.

In a video, the blogger, who uses the handle umr.sham, said: “Police officers explained to me that lawful measures will be taken over the content I created. I apologise to everyone for this content. I regret what I did.”

The video, which has drawn more than 1 million views in a few days, depicts a killing that can be read as a threat against the singer and others. The anti-violence project Nemolchi.Uz said it shows the main character concluding that Mubinlolo’s work runs counter to national moral values, then performing actions that suggest killing her and burying her body.

“Such content transmits dangerous ideas of violence and vigilantism, creating a threat to public safety and the rule of law,” the project said in a statement on Nov. 6.

The project also questioned why there had been no public legal assessment four days after the video was posted. “While ordinary citizens are held liable for remarks or criticism on social media, a blogger who posted a video showing women being killed ... remains unpunished,” it said.

Nemolchi.Uz first urged law enforcement agencies of Uzbekistan on Nov. 4 to assess the video and its author’s actions. After the killing scenes, the author raises the flag of Uzbekistan and the flag of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the project said.