The court refused to change the preventive measure for kidnapped Zarema Musaeva

The Supreme Court of Chechnya refused to change the preventive measure against Zarema Musayeva, the mother of human rights activist Abubakar Yangulbaev, who was previously abducted from Nizhny Novgorod. This is reported by SOTA.

The woman will remain in jail. The court refused to transfer her to house arrest, despite her health problems: Musaeva can barely walk; before that, she fainted during a hearing on an administrative case.

A preventive measure was chosen for the human rights activist's mother in the case of the use of violence against a government official (Part 2 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, she scratched the policeman’s face when he was drawing up an administrative report against her. The woman herself denies this.

Musaeva was taken from Nizhny Novgorod to Chechnya on January 20. In the evening, unknown people who introduced themselves as police officers came to the home of her and her husband, retired judge Saidi Yangulbaev. The security forces showed Yangulbaev's lawyer a resolution to bring the spouses to Chechnya as witnesses in a fraud case.

The woman was then forcibly taken from the apartment. Musayeva fainted on the stairs - she suffers from diabetes and may have coronavirus. Later, the Committee Against Torture published a recording showing a woman being led barefoot down the street to a car.

After this, Musayeva was sentenced to 15 days of arrest under the article of petty hooliganism (Part 1 of Article 20.1 of the Administrative Code). Later, the woman refused the services of a lawyer - human rights activists believe that she was forced to do so.

• A number of high-ranking Chechen officials, as well as State Duma deputy Adam Delimkhanov, made threats against the Yangulbaev family, which fell into disgrace due to criticism of the regime of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov. “We have no more important job than finding you and cutting off your heads,” officials said. Earlier, Kadyrov himself spoke in a similar way. “A place awaits this family either in prison or underground,” he wrote in his Telegram channel. On February 3, it became known that relatives of the Yangulbayev family publicly renounced them on the air of the Grozny TV channel.
• Shortly before the New Year, Musaeva’s son, an employee of the Committee Against Torture, Abubakar Yangulbaev, had his apartment in Pyatigorsk searched, after which he was interrogated by police officers. At the same time, his relatives were kidnapped in Chechnya: they were later released, but as of January 19, at least two people were still kidnapped.
• Brothers Ibragim and Abubakar Yangulbaev and their father, retired judge Saidi Yangulbaev, were tortured in Chechnya in 2015, Ibragim spoke about this. He connects the persecution of his family with his activist activities and criticism of the Kadyrov regime. In 2022, the Supreme Court of Chechnya, on the initiative of its chairman Alavdin Kardaloyev, deprived Saidi Yangulbaev of the status of a retired federal judge.