Social media users expressed concern about the fate of Mansur Movlaev

The deadline for considering the request of Chechen native Mansur Movlaev for asylum in Kazakhstan expires on August 19, but a hearing on this matter has not yet been scheduled, the lawyer said. The delay in the process makes one fear for Movlaev's fate, commentators on the lawyer's social network indicated.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel" wrote, the process of extraditing Chechen native Mansur Movlaev to Russia has been suspended until Kazakhstan considers his request for asylum. Kazakhstan is not under the jurisdiction of the ECHR, while the country's authorities will decide for themselves whether to comply with the decisions of the UN Human Rights Committee in the case of the extradition of Chechen native Mansur Movlaev to Russia.

Mansur Movlaev received the status of an asylum seeker in Kazakhstan. "Our authorities issued him a corresponding certificate, valid until August 19, 2025. But up to now, the asylum commission has not yet scheduled a hearing, which greatly worries me and my colleagues," one of Movlaev's lawyers, Murat Adam, wrote today on his Instagram page*.

This post on the lawyer's page, which has 3,634 subscribers, has garnered 19 comments by 18:21 Moscow time.

"There is no experience and the procedure is not established, that's why they are dragging it out," suggested ai_zha90.

"The protection of human and civil rights and freedoms is not established," commented dana552150.

"The thoughts are very disturbing. The issue is political, they are keeping silent for a reason. The only thing is that there is a glimmer of hope that a hearing will be scheduled for August 12-13," - natalya6832 commented.

"Under no circumstances should the guy be handed over to Russia. He will be destroyed. It is understandable that officials are stalling. But it is important that society puts pressure on them," says nbbreal.

User alimzhan_abiev.82 expressed the opinion that the Kazakh authorities will agree to fulfill the extradition request from Russia. "I think ours will not refuse," he wrote.

Some users expressed confidence that the Kazakh authorities will protect Movlaev. "I am confident that our authorities will provide a document according to which a person seeking help will receive support," zhanarasagdi noted.

Recall that earlier, the lawyers of Chechen native Mansur Movlaev themselves asked to place him in a pretrial detention center out of concerns for his safety, but after an Ingush suspect in the murder was admitted to the institution, a threat to Movlaev arose there as well.

While studying at the university, Mansur Movlaev helped the Chechen opposition movement "Adat" (an organization recognized as extremist, its activities are banned in Russia) with information about kidnapped people. In 2020, Movlaev was sentenced in Russia to two years in prison on charges of drug trafficking. He told his lawyers that investigators gave him a "choice" of two articles: possession of weapons or drugs, and he was supposed to go to prison either way. In 2022, Movlaev was released on parole, but was detained by security forces in Chechnya and held in an illegal prison. He escaped from there and in January 2023 was able to illegally reach Kyrgyzstan after a case of financing extremism was fabricated against him.

In August 2023, security forces in Kyrgyzstan detained Movlaev, who was wanted in Russia in a case of financing extremist activity. On October 4, 2023, a court in Bishkek sentenced Movlaev to six months in prison and subsequent deportation from the country. In October 2024, Mansur Movlaev reported the kidnapping of his relatives by security forces in Chechnya.

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