The mother of Chechen activists, Zarema Musaeva, spent two weeks in a republican hospital due to health problems that arose in pre-trial detention center No. 1 of Grozny. this . reports Team Against Torture
In July it became known that Musaeva had been suffering from regular nosebleeds for the past few months. She also reported loss of sensation in her feet and pain in her arm. Human rights activists report that Musayeva was diagnosed with insulin-dependent type 2 diabetes, atherosclerotic cardiosclerosis, arterial hypertension and other diagnoses.
Musayeva's lawyers also reported that she experiences acute hypertensive crises, sometimes accompanied by loss of consciousness. At the end of May, an ambulance came to see a woman in a pre-trial detention center because her sugar and blood pressure had risen. Then the mothers of the Chechen activists were given an injection and pills, but there was no examination. In connection with all this, the prisoner’s defense repeatedly demanded that she be given inpatient treatment.
As a result, only on July 31, Zarema Musaeva was hospitalized at the Republican Clinical Hospital named after. Sh. Sh. Ependieva, where she was undergoing planned treatment until August 14.
On July 4, Zarema Musaeva was sentenced to five and a half years in a general regime colony in the case of fraud and violence against a police officer. As the Committee Against Torture wrote, the investigation claims that Musaeva, together with her “accomplice,” in 2017 implemented a fraudulent scheme related to consumer loans, and after being detained and brought to Grozny for interrogation, she scratched a policeman’s cheek.
In January 2022, Musaeva was forcibly taken from Nizhny Novgorod to Chechnya, allegedly for interrogation in a fraud case. There, the woman was sentenced to 15 days of arrest under the article on petty hooliganism (Part 1 of Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offences), and later was charged with fraud on a large scale (Part 3 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code) and of using violence against a police officer (Part. 2 Article 318 of the Criminal Code).
In February 2022, a court in Grozny sent the woman to a pre-trial detention center, where she is still being held. Musaeva does not admit her guilt.
- Zarema Musaeva is the wife of retired federal judge Saidi Yangulbaev, their eldest son Abubakar Yangulbaev worked as a lawyer in the Committee Against Torture, and the authorities also suspect him and other sons of involvement in the Chechen opposition channel 1ADAT. Family members have been persecuted for years. “A place awaits this family either in prison or underground,” Ramzan Kadyrov said in his Telegram channel .
- In 2015, Saidi Yangulbaev and his eldest sons Ibragim and Abubakar Yangulbaev were tortured in Chechnya - Ibragim spoke about this .
- In 2017, Ibragim was sent to a pre-trial detention center on charges of inciting hatred and enmity (Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code) towards “Russian military personnel” and was released at the beginning of 2019 after the partial decriminalization of this article. While in custody on July 2, 2018, he developed acute symptoms of appendicitis, but he was operated on only on July 11, when serious complications developed. Already on July 20, he was returned to the cell, where he was not given the opportunity to follow a postoperative diet.
- At the end of 2021, Abubakar Yangulbaev’s apartment in Pyatigorsk was searched, after which he was interrogated by police officers. Then his relatives were kidnapped in Chechnya: they were later released, but on January 19 at least two people were still kidnapped.