The mother of Chechen human rights activists Zarem Musaev was sentenced to 5.5 years in colony

Zarem Musaev, the wife of the ex-Suda of the Supreme Court of Chechnya, Sayy Yangulbaev and the mother of the Chechen human rights activists Abubakar, Ibrahim and Baysangur Yangulbaev, sentenced to 5.5 years the colony of general regime for “applying violence to a police officer”. This was reported by the project "Team against torture".

She was found guilty of “fraud” (Article 159 of the Criminal Code) and “applying violence against a representative of the authorities” (Article 318 of the Criminal Code).

The defense of Musaeva asked to postpone the announcement of the verdict due to the attack on the lawyer Alexander Nemov, but the court refused the petition. In court, Musaev was represented by a lawyer from the “team against torture” Alexander Savin.

On the day of the sentence, on July 4, to the journalist of Novaya Gazeta, Elena Milashin and lawyer Alexander Nemov, who came to cover the meeting, attacked the unknown people. On the way from the airport, the car was blocked by three cars with armed people who beat Milashin and Nemov and selected all the equipment from them. The attackers broke their fingers with Milashina when they demanded a password from her phone, she also diagnosed a closed head injury. The defenders of Zarema Musaeva after an attack on the journalist and lawyer filed a petition for the Akhmatovsky District Court of Grozny to ensure their defense, Ksenia Sobchak reported .