The Dozhd TV channel published a recording of Zarema Musaeva’s speech at a meeting of the Supreme Court of Chechnya, which upheld the decision to appoint her to a pre-trial detention center. On the recording, Musaeva says that she is “dying quietly.”
“I’m not going to run away, I don’t have the strength, it’s very hard for me. If possible, give house arrest, please. I have an intervertebral hernia, one is generally 10 millimeters. The state itself is very weak, I can’t walk If you can give me house arrest, I won’t run away anywhere. My condition is very bad, I am dying quietly,” she says.
As a result, the Chechen court left Musaev under arrest.
On January 20, Zarema Musaeva was forcibly taken from Nizhny Novgorod by officers of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya for interrogation in a criminal case of credit fraud initiated in 2019, while the Yangulbaev family left Grozny in 2017.
In Chechnya, they said that Musaev was taken to Grozny legally. Immediately upon arrival in the republic, the woman 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.
Musaeva and her husband, former federal judge Saidi Yangulbaev, are the parents of Abubakar Yangulbaev, ex-employee of the Committee against Torture, and blogger Ibragim Yangulbaev, who were accused in Chechnya of justifying terrorism (Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code).
