And the eyes are so kind

Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov approached Russian President Dmitry Medvedev with a proposal to declare an amnesty for women and children convicted of minor crimes in the republic from 1999 to 2005 (during the so-called active phase of the counter-terrorism operation). Vedomosti wrote about this on June 26, citing a source close to the Russian presidential administration. Medvedev instructed Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov to work on this issue.

According to the Commissioner for Human Rights in Chechnya, Nurdi Nukhazhiev, there are now about 500 women and 100 children convicted of various crimes in Chechnya during this period in various colonies and prisons in Russia.

Minor crimes may also mean resisting troops, as well as causing damage and wounds that are not dangerous to health. Deputy Chairman of the Duma Committee on Legislation Yuri Napso (LDPR) noted that women and children throughout the country commit minor crimes and it is not clear why amnesty should be declared only for those who did this in Chechnya. He believes that now such an amnesty will only destabilize the situation in the region, given that, according to some reports, a woman attempted to assassinate the President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Yevkurov. This, however, is a strange remark, since the attempt on Yevkurov can hardly be considered a minor crime.

At the same time, Moskovsky Komsomolets reports that Chechen Zarema Muzhakhoeva, who is in prison for attempting a terrorist attack, wrote to Medvedev asking for a pardon. Muzhakhoeva was sentenced to 20 years in prison, of which she served six years. On May 9, 2003, she was detained in the center of Moscow with a bomb, during the demining of which an explosives technician died. Muzhakhoeva writes that her mother abandoned her, her father died in the war, her husband was killed, and her child was taken away by her father-in-law, and that she was going to commit a terrorist attack because she owed money and did not value her own life. “MK” notes that since, according to Muzhakhoeva’s testimony, about fifteen militants were arrested or killed and their base was discovered, then formally she has the right to leniency. However, it is obvious that this has nothing to do with Kadyrov’s plan.