Video of Zarema Musaeva’s kidnapping posted on Internet

According to video from surveillance cameras, law enforcers took Zarema Musaeva out of the house entrance without warm clothes. The elderly woman was walking through the snow without shoes, Sergey Babinets, a lawyer of the “Committee Against Torture”*, emphasized.

On January 20, the “Committee Against Torture” reported that Zarema Yangulbaeva (also referred to by the media as Musaeva), a spouse of retired federal judge Saidi Yangulbaev, was taken to Chechnya in an unconscious state. Ramzan Kadyrov threatened that the whole Yangulbaev family faced a place “in prison or underground.” According to Akhmed Dudaev, Chechen Minister of Information and Press of Chechnya, Zarema Musaeva was detained for attacking a policeman in Grozny, and the court arrested her for 15 days.

Sergey Babinets, a lawyer of the “Committee Against Torture”, posted a video of the kidnapping of Abubakar Yangulbaev’s mother on his Instagram page.

* The “Committee Against Torture” (CaT) was included by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) of Russia in the register of NCOs-foreign agents in 2015. In this regard, leaders liquidated the organization and created a new legal entity: the “Committee for the Prevention of Torture”, which was also included in the list of foreign agents, and the organization was closed. At present, the “Committee Against Torture” operates as an unregistered public association.