Chechen authorities announce return of a Dagestani resident's grandson from Iraq

Akhmed Abdulaev, a resident of Dagestan, used social networks to disseminate his request to help return home his grandson after the death of his parents: a daughter of Akhmed Abdulaev and her husband. The boy was found in Iraq. This was reported by Ziyad Sabsabi, the representative of the Chechen Parliament at the Federation Council. The statement was made amid unfulfilled promises of the authorities to return home more than 150 women and children.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on December 14, 2017, Ziyad Sabsabi announced the plan to return home more than 150 women and children from Syria and Iraq in the near future. However, on January 30, an official of the administration for the Chechen leader and government reported that the question of their return to homeland had not been yet solved.

At present, two children of the deceased daughter of Akhmed Abdulaev stay at an orphanage in Iraq. The man will be assisted in return of his grandchildren to homeland, reported the administration for the Chechen leader and government.

According to Akhmed Abdulaev, in 2015, his daughter with her husband and six-month-old son left for the UAE, and then they moved to Iraq, where their second child was born. The parents of the children died, and the boys were placed to a Baghdad orphanage, the "Grozny" TV Channel reports.

Ziyad Sabsabi has announced that on February 21, the Akhmed Abdulaev's eldest grandson, who stayed at the orphanage for about five months, will be transported from Baghdad to Moscow and then to Grozny.

The return of the widows and children of the militants killed in Syria and Iraq has recently been seriously hampered, reports a head of a Chechen NGO.

"In Iraq, the authorities charge widows of militants of terrorism. They are going to bring to trial most of them, and that means for defendants prolonged deprivation of liberty or execution. And to be brought home, children should first be identified, since they have got no documents and many of them do not know their names or where their parents came from," the NGO head noted.

According to him, the serious opposition also comes from the secret services in Russia.

The psychologist has added that there is also a problem of adapting children who have returned from Syria and Iraq.