The head of the Human Rights Council (HRC), Valery Fadeev, turned to the head of the ICR, Alexander Bastrykin, with a request to transfer the criminal case against Zarema Musaeva, the wife of former federal judge Saidi Yangulbaev, from Chechnya to the district or federal level.
We are talking about the IC for the North Caucasian Federal District or the Main Directorate of the IC. The woman is charged with causing life-threatening bodily harm to a police officer. According to Fadeev, the situation around the Yangulbaev family has escalated so much that the results of the investigation by Chechen investigators can be discredited.
“The rhetoric on both sides has become extremely sharp, up to public statements by officials of the Chechen Republic with threats against the Yangulbaev family. In this situation, the course and results of the investigation of the criminal case against Zarema Musaeva can be discredited and assessed by society as biased and biased,” quotes Fadeev’s letter to the HRC press service.
Fadeev also pointed out that Musayeva’s case is closely linked to the conflict between the leadership of Chechnya and her sons, who are accused of calling for terrorism in the 1ADAT telegram channel recognized as extremist. The head of the republic Ramzan Kadyrov and his associate Adam Delimkhanov had earlier threatened to kill the Yangulbaev family.
Employees of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya arrived in Nizhny Novgorod on January 20 and took Musaeva to Grozny for interrogation. Musaeva and her husband Saydi Yangulbaev are the parents of Abubakar Yangulbaev, ex-employee of the Committee against Torture, and blogger Ibragim Yangulbaev. Human rights activists consider the kidnapping of Musayeva connected with the activities of her sons, who became defendants in cases of justifying terrorism (Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code).
The Chechen authorities claim that Musaeva was taken to Grozny legally. Immediately upon her arrival in Chechnya, she was arrested for 15 days for “resisting the lawful demands of a police officer.” Then she was charged with using violence dangerous to life and health against a police officer (Part 2 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and arrested for 2 months.
After Kadyrov accused the Yangulbayevs of aiding extremism and terrorism, Saidi Yangulbayev and his daughter left Russia.
