In Germany, Shamil Basaev's daughter and grandson of face deportation threat

Khava Abdulmezhidova, a Shamil Basaev's daughter, has left Russia with her son and arrived in Germany, where she applied for asylum. However, German authorities may reject the appeal and deport them to Russia, Abubakar Yangulbaev, a human rights defender, is afraid.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on July 10, 2006, in the Nazran District, two kilometres away from the village of Ekazhevo located in the same district, a truck stuffed with explosives blew up. Four bodies were found at the scene. One of them was identified as Shamil Basaev. The Russian FSB (Federal Security Service) reported that Basaev was liquidated as a result of a successful operation conducted by special services to eliminate a number of Chechen militants.

Abubakar Yangulbaev has reported in his Telegram channel citing his sources that German authorities may deport the daughter and grandson of Shamil Basaev to Russia.

"Because of the legal norms under the Dublin law, they are threatened with deportation back to Croatia; and Chechens and other Russian Muslims are deported from Croatia to Turkey or Russia. And in both cases it is not safe for them," Mr Yangulbaev has written.

The above Basaev's daughter and grandson had already applied for asylum in Germany back in 2013, but were denied and deported to Russia in 2018, Yangulbaev has added. "Deportation in Russia is tantamount to an extrajudicial execution for them," he has concluded, urging German authorities to grant asylum to Basaev's daughter and grandson. "You refuse oppositionists from Chechnya who are being tortured, abused, kidnapped and really need help," the human rights defender has stressed.

Yangulbaev has noted that if German authorities deny asylum to Basaev's daughter and grandson because of their relationship with him, then they should apply a similar approach to all other persons.

According to Yangulbaev, one of Basaev's grandsons had been kidnapped by law enforcers and tortured; later he managed to leave Chechnya.

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