The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) asked the Russian authorities questions about the situation with Zarema Musaeva, the wife of ex-judge Saydi Yangulbaev, who was forcibly taken from Nizhny Novgorod to Chechnya by the security forces, and ordered them to answer them before February 7. This is reported by the «Committee against Torture» (CPT).
Zarema Musaeva, photo from the CPT telegram channel
On January 21, human rights activists filed an urgent complaint with the ECtHR because of what happened to Musaeva in accordance with the 39th rule of the European court. It is used when urgent legal assistance is needed in cases where «the life and health of a person is threatened by an imminent risk of causing irreparable harm.»
CPT spokeswoman Natalya Kurekina told Novaya Gazeta that human rights activists know exactly what questions the ECHR has asked the Russian authorities, but they cannot voice them. “Now we are waiting for a decision after February 7,” she added.
Last Thursday, representatives of the Chechen Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city of Grozny came to the Nizhny Novgorod apartment of retired judge Saidi Yangulbaev and his wife Zarema Musaeva. They took away Musayeva, suffering from diabetes, in an unknown direction, without clothes and necessary medicines. Musaeva and Yangulbaev are the parents of an ex-employee of the North Caucasian branch of the checkpoint, Abubakar Yangulbaev.