EU FlagsMOSCOW, Jan 23The European Union called on the Russian authorities to release Zarema Musaeva, the wife of a retired judge of the Supreme Court of Chechnya, Saidi Yangulbaev, and did this a day after the woman had already been visited by the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Chechen Republic, Mansur Soltaev, and showed a video with her, and two days after Musaeva was detained in Nizhny Novgorod. Musaeva herself, in a conversation with the Chechen Ombudsman, said that no violence was used against her, however, according to the EU foreign service, Musaeva was «forcibly detained» and she was «forcibly transferred to Chechnya.» Russian Human Rights Ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova asked Chechen Prosecutor Sharpuddi Abdul-Kadyrov to check the situation around Zarema Musaeva. detained on trumped-up charges,» the representative of the EU Foreign Service said in a statement. Lawyer Natalia Dobronravova told RIA Novosti on the morning of Friday, January 21, that unknown persons who introduced themselves as operatives took Zarema Musaeva, the wife of a retired judge of the Supreme Court of Chechnya, Saydi Yangulbaev, for interrogation. living in Nizhny Novgorod. She said that she was called for legal assistance, there were Caucasians in civilian clothes and masks near the entrance. According to the lawyer, they introduced themselves as operatives, but did not show their IDs and did not say from which department, they presented a decision to bring Musaeva as a witness in the case of fraud, which is being investigated by the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs, “began to drag her out of the apartment by force, the woman lost consciousness, and she was dragged down the stairs.» The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, previously indicated that the actions of the police from the republic, who worked in Nizhny Novgorod on Thursday, were coordinated and were in accordance with Russian law. According to him, before this incident Yangulbayev «was sent a summons three times.» As Kadyrov noted in his Telegram channel, Musaeva, who was brought to Grozny, attacked a police officer and almost deprived him of his eye, earning himself «a real term of imprisonment.» The press secretary of the Russian leader Dmitry Peskov, commenting on this story, said that if there were statements to the police about the situation in Nizhny Novgorod around the ex-judge of Chechnya, the department is already working, and the Chechen security forces cannot have a special status. Delivered to Grozny, Musaeva attacked a policeman, Kadyrov said
