Presidential adviser and chairman of the Human Rights Council (HRC) Valery Fadeev said that the delivery to Chechnya of the wife of the former Chechen judge Zarema Musayeva took place «in accordance with the norms of the Code of Criminal Procedure.» Fadeev's comment was published on the HRC website.
“At the moment, from a legal point of view, the situation is generally clear, the wife of S.V. Yangulbaev Zarema Musaeva was taken to Grozny as a witness in a criminal case in accordance with the norms of the Criminal -procedural code,” said the chairman of the HRC.
Killing, planting, scaring. The abduction of the judge's wife by Chechen security forces in Nizhny Novgorod is the main thing
Chechen security forces detained Musayeva on January 20 in Nizhny Novgorod and took her to Grozny for questioning in a fraud case in which she is a witness.
“[The policemen] burst in, beat Zarema [Musaeva], hit the lawyer in the face, drove us together with our colleagues into a back room, imposed rude obscenities, also hit Saydi Yangulbaev and took Zarema [Musaeva] away,” the lawyer described what was happening. Committee Against Torture» Sergey Babinets. In addition, as human rights activists reported, Yangulbaev's wife has diabetes, while the police did not take insulin and warm clothes with them.
According to the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, when Musaeva was taken to Grozny, she attacked a policeman and “almost deprived him of his eye,” because of this, she was charged with petty hooliganism and arrested for 15 days. “At present, she is in the special detention center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Chechen Republic, where, in accordance with the law, the prosecutor, lawyer and members of the public monitoring commission of the Chechen Republic can visit her,” Fadeev added. The «Committee against Torture» noted that the staff of the special detention center did not allow lawyers to see Musaeva.
Kadyrov also accused the Yangulbaev family of terrorism and said: «This family is waiting for a place either in prison or underground.» Yangulbaev's eldest son, Ibragim, said that their family left Chechnya after he, along with his brother and father, were kidnapped and tortured at Kadyrov's residence because of critical posts on social networks. A few days after the security forces' visit to Nizhny Novgorod, Musayeva's husband and her daughter left Russia.