Zarema Musaeva appealed the verdict

A lawyer has filed an appeal against the Shali Court's retrial of the sentence handed down to Zarema Musayeva for assaulting a security officer.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," in August 2025, the Shali Court of Chechnya sentenced Zarema Musayeva to three years and 11 months in prison for disrupting the work of a penal colony. On February 16, the Supreme Court of Chechnya overturned Musayeva's sentence and, at the prosecutor's request, remanded the case for a new trial. Following a retrial of the criminal case for disrupting the activities of a correctional facility, Zarema Musayeva was sentenced to three years and 10 months in a penal colony.

A lawyer, acting on behalf of Zarema Musayeva, appealed the sentence handed down to her on March 4, the Team Against Torture* reported today.

"A preliminary appeal was filed with the Shali City Court of the Chechen Republic. Alexander Savin will file an additional appeal after reviewing the reasoned text of the court's verdict and the minutes of the court hearing," the report stated.

Zarema Musayeva - The wife of former federal judge Saidi Yangulbaev. Chechen security forces took her away from her apartment in Nizhny Novgorod on January 20, 2022. Afterward, Ramzan Kadyrov accused the Yangulbaev family of organizing a terrorist network and said their destination was "prison or underground." You can read about Kadyrov's conflict with the Yangulbaevs in the "Caucasian Knot" reports "How the Yangulbaevs Became Kadyrov's Enemies" and "The Main Thing About the Fight Between Kadyrov's Men and the Yangulbaevs."