In Grozny, court leaves Zarema Musaeva under arrest until December 12

In Grozny, a court pronounced a decision to extend the arrest of Zarema Musaeva, a spouse of former federal judge Saidi Yangulbaev, for three months. This was reported by the “Team Against Torture”*.

The “Caucasian Knot” has reported that on August 16, a judge did not grant the defenders’ request to change the territorial jurisdiction of the case against Zarema Musaeva, accused of fraud and an attack on a law enforcer. The human rights project “Support for Political Prisoners” recognized Zarema Musaeva as a political prisoner.

On February 11, Zarema Musaeva’s son Abubakar Yangulbaev pointed out that his mother was suffering from diabetes and that penal colonies could not contain people with that disease. Doctors were invited several times to the trial and the SIZO (pre-trial prison) for Zarema Musaeva. According to her relatives, Zarema Musaeva is getting worse in detention.

Earlier, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov accused the Yangulbaev family of supporting terrorism and said that a place awaited them “in prison or underground.” State Duma member from Chechnya Adam Delimkhanov threatened the Yangulbaev family with reprisals. After that, Saidi Yangulbaev and his children left Russia.

*The “Team Against Torture” (formerly the “Committee Against Torture”) was created by lawyers who previously worked for the “Committee Against Torture” (CaT), which was included in the register of foreign agents.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on September 7, 2022 at 05:20 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.