The Chechen ombudsman published a video with the wife of judge Yangulbaev, who was forcibly taken for interrogation to Chechnya

Chechen Ombudsman Mansur Soltaev published a video with the wife of judge Saydi Yangulbaev, Zarema Musaeva, who was taken for interrogation to Chechnya. In the video, she says that there was “no violence” from the security forces.

Musayeva also says in the video that they bought medicine for her and “injected her.” The judge’s wife has diabetes, and when the police took her from her home in Nizhny Novgorod, they did not take insulin or warm clothes with them, the Committee Against Torture noted.

As reported by human rights activists, Musayeva’s son Abubakar Yangulbaev commented on the video: “This is complete hell. I have no words. I don't believe that this can happen in Russia. I know my mother and now in the video she is in a very serious condition and just not at all.”

In the post, Soltaev wrote that the reason for the wide publicity of the security forces’ visit to Yangulbaev in the media was that it was security forces from Chechnya who came to the judge’s family.

“Once again we are seeing how the legitimate actions of law enforcement officers of the Russian Federation attract so much attention from the yellow press and provocateurs only because they are from the Chechen Republic,” the ombudsman added.

Earlier, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, commenting on the visit of security forces to the judge’s family, said that “a place awaits this family either in prison or underground.” According to him, Musaeva, after she was taken to Grozny, attacked a policeman and “almost deprived him of his eye.” Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov called the incident a “fantastic story.”

On the evening of January 20, armed police arrived in Nizhny Novgorod at Yangulbaev’s home and demanded that he and his wife go to Chechnya for interrogation. Because of her status as a judge, the security forces took away only Musaeva.

“[The police] burst in, beat Zarema [Musaeva], hit the lawyer in the face, drove us and our colleagues into a back room, showered us with rude obscene language, also hit Saidi Yangulbaev and took Zarema [Musaeva] away,” described the Committee lawyer against torture" Sergei Babinets, who was in the apartment.

One son of the Yangulbayevs, Abubakar, was a lawyer for the Committee Against Torture, and the second, Ibragim, spent a year and a half under arrest on charges of inciting hatred. Novaya Gazeta noted telegram channel that Chechen security forces connected the brothers with the 1ADAT , which criticized the authorities of the republic.