“Memorial”: the husband of a participant in a rally against mobilization died in Chechnya; he was forced to beat his wife, and his son was sent to war

In Chechnya, a resident of the village of Katayama, Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny, Adam Muradov, the husband of one of the participants in the rally against mobilization in the city center, whose name was not named, died. This was reported by the human rights group Memorial, citing a source in the republic familiar with the incident.

In Grozny, on the day the “partial” mobilization was announced on September 21, about 40 women gathered in the square to hold a rally against conscription and were detained. According to Memorial's source, the police took the women to the Grozny mayor's office, where they also brought their relatives, among whom was Muradov. According to the interlocutor of the human rights center, the men were forced to beat the women, threatening that otherwise the security forces would do it.

After the failed action, the head of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, called the Chechen women who came to the square “enemies of the people” and proposed sending their relatives to war. Then, on the air of the Grozny TV channel, he said that all of them had already been mobilized for the war with Ukraine.

According to human rights activists, one of those mobilized is Muradov’s 18-year-old son Valid. On September 25, he called his family and said that he was on a plane flying to Ukraine, and two days later he said that he had been brought to Lugansk and would soon “be sent to the front line.”

The next day, his father Adam Muradov became ill; Memorial’s source clarified that he died of a heart attack. Human rights activists noted that “the story caused a great resonance in Chechnya,” which is why Muradov’s family was forced to record a video with a refutation.

On September 22, Kadyrov announced that there would be no mobilization in Chechnya, since during the war in Ukraine the republic “exceeded the plan by 254%.” According to him, 20 thousand residents of the region took part in the invasion.