Members of the Keloy teip, to which the family of the former Chechen judge Saydi Yangulbaev belongs, have abandoned and cursed them.
There is a video with speeches of relatives. published The channel ChGTRK “Grozny” showed that members of the teip also threatened the Yangulbaev family with murder.
The brother of Saidi Yangulbaev, who was not named, said that they are disowning his family and are not hesitant to harm them. He expressed regret for the situation caused by Saidi. leads The information was published by Kavkaz.Realii.
He also asked for forgiveness from the entire Chechen people and from the leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, stating that the teip is shamed by the family's actions.
Another brother, self-introduced as Saydi-Amin, vowed to personally kill his nephew Ibragim Yangulbaev if he catches him before others.
On January 20, Chechen security forces arrested the mother of activist Abubakar Yangulbaev and the wife of judge Saydi Yangulbaev in Nizhny Novgorod. Ramzan Kadyrov called the Yangulbayev family “accomplices of terrorists” and threatened the judge’s relatives with “destruction”. The Kremlin viewed Kadyrov’s words as a “personal opinion.”
Following that, a State Duma deputy from Chechnya, Adam Delimkhanov, threatened to behead members of Judge Saidi Yangulbaev's family. Threats were also made against those who dared to translate Delimkhanov’s words from Chechen into Russian.
Following Delimkhanov, judge Yangulbaev and other Chechen politicians and security officials promised to “find and cut off the heads” of family members, including several government figures. Kadyrov’s supporters also demanded the closure of “enemy media.”
On February 2, an unauthorized rally against the Yangulbaev family took place in Grozny, which attracted around 400,000 people, including state employees, students, and the religious and political elite of Chechnya. The rally was held despite coronavirus restrictions banning mass events.
The Chechen Rospotrebnadzor could not find the organizers of the “spontaneous” people’s gathering. Although the meeting was attended by the Chairman of the Public Chamber of Chechnya Ismail Denilkhanov, the head of the republican government Magomed Daudov, the Minister for National Policy Akhmed Dudayev, the chairman of the Council of Alims of the North Caucasus Federal District Khozh-Akhmed Kadyrov, Mufti Salakh-Khadzhi Mezhiev.
