Saidi Yangulbaev rebukes Kremlin for inaction

Saidi Yangulbaev, a former federal judge, said that he had repeatedly appealed to the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, asking him to protect his family from the persecution by "Kadyrov people", but no reaction followed.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on February 3, the qualification board of judges of Chechnya terminated Saidi Yangulbaev's resignation, thus depriving him of his legitimate immunity. Yangulbaev said that the decision of the qualification board of Chechen judges is contrary to the law and will be appealed against.

Saidi Yangulbaev said that back in 2017, after his family was persecuted, he turned to Vladimir Putin for help, but instead all his complaints were sent down to Chechnya. "It seems that since I was appointed by a presidential decree, he could assign someone to deal with me since 2015, well, at least in 2017, when I turned to President Vladimir Putin because of the persecution of my youngest son Ibragim on extremist charges. But then my applications were sent to Chechnya – to those very bodies against which I had complained and whose employees I asked to be held accountable," Mr Yangulbaev said in his interview with the "Republic"* outlet on February 4.

He has stressed that the whole world knows about the situation with his family, "but the Kremlin is silent." "After all, I was appointed to the post of the judge by a decree of the President of Russia. Why is Putin silent now, when the whole world is talking about this? Why doesn't he check and get into the situation? He is, after all, the guarantor of the Constitution. I feel very offended by him," the former judge has stated.

* The organization is included by the Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) in the “Register of non-profit organizations performing the functions of a foreign agent”.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on February 5, 2022 at 12:41 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.