“In Chechnya there is not a single authority where one could turn.” The trial of Zarema Musaeva, the mother of Kadyrov’s opponents, began in Grozny

The place is either in prison or underground

“The case is related to the political and human rights activities of [Zarema Musayeva’s] sons. This was preceded by my detention [in December 2021 in Pyatigorsk]. They let me go because they agreed that I would go on vacation and return. I had to work for Kadyrov's propaganda. But I did not return and thus deceived them. I didn’t expect that they would kidnap my mother,” says Abubakar Yangulbaev, a former employee of the Committee against Torture, son of Zarema Musayeva.

into the apartment in Nizhny Novgorod where Zarema lived with her husband, former federal judge Saidi Yangulbaev broke On January 20 , Chechen police . By law, a judge's home is inviolable. Nevertheless, they took his wife by force and took him to Chechnya - and not even as a suspect, but as a witness in a fraud case. Zarema has diabetes, but she was not allowed to take medication.

Problems for the Yangulbaev family began in the mid-2010s. One of Saidi’s sons, Ibragim, administrated a group in opposition to the Chechen authorities on VKontakte - for this, Saidi and his sons, Ibragim and Abubakar, according to them, were beaten right in the residence of Ramzan Kadyrov. Ibragim was kept in a pre-trial detention center in Chechnya.