Kidnapped relatives of political emigrants were released in Chechnya. Their families were declared a blood feud

Abducted relatives of political emigrants Khasan Khalitov and Ilman Mamakaev were released in Chechnya. about this . writes The "Caucasian Knot"

Seven natives of Chechnya were detained in Chechnya and Moscow on September 5 after unknown persons beat Abdurakhman Maduev, a former member of the Grozny regiment named after Akhmat Kadyrov, in Istanbul.

Blogger Khasan Khalitov, who lives in Turkey, told the publication that his 75-year-old father Gani Khalitov, 46-year-old brother Ramzan Khalitov and 31-year-old twin brother Hussein Khalitov, who was forcibly taken to Chechnya from Moscow, are at home.

According to the blogger, they continue to put pressure on him through relatives. “The relatives were released, they were shown on TV, but on September 8 they called me and said: ‘Are you worried that one of us will be killed?’ They asked me to stop all information activities,” Khasan Khalitov said.

Ilman Mamakaev, who lives in Belgium, also added that his 73-year-old father and three brothers, one of whom is a minor, have been released. “My relatives were released on September 6. They were beaten and they declared a blood feud against us for nothing. I myself have been living in Belgium since 2015, I know Khasan Khalitov only through YouTube. Neither I nor my family have anything to do with what happened in Istanbul,” Mamakaev said.

He suggested that the security forces, knowing about the residence of his brother in Turkey, could consider him involved in the beating of Maduev. Mamakaev noted that his brother knew about the incident only from the Internet. “Yes, they have an interest in him, because he is an opponent of the Kadyrovites. In 2008, he was taken precisely [to the police department in Achkhoy-Martan], illegally imprisoned, and tortured. After he left, he came to Poland, then returned home. Again they took away, tortured. He agreed to work for them and fled, went to Turkey,” Mamakaev explained.

In the Chechen pro-government public in social networks, information has appeared that a blood feud has been declared against the families of the Mamakaevs and Khalitovs, the "Caucasian Knot" reports.

• In February 2021, were taken two guys from Nizhny Novgorod to Chechnya, who had previously been forced to apologize for criticizing Ramzan Kadyrov. They were accused of participating in an armed group: they allegedly passed food to the militants.
• On September 6, 2020, in Gelendzhik (Krasnodar Territory), Salman Tepsurkaev, the moderator of the Telegram channel chat about human rights violations in Chechnya 1ADAT, was kidnapped. According to the Committee Against Torture, he was taken to Chechnya in the car of an acting employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Tepsurkaev was taken to the Terek SOBR base in Grozny, wrote Novaya Gazeta . The next day, in the chat of the 1ADAT channel, a man with the nickname “Hunter” uploaded a video in which a young man who calls himself Salman Tepsurkaev repents of being the administrator of a channel where they scold the authorities. The young man, who is shown completely naked in the video, sits down on a bottle after confessing.