A week ago, on January 20, in Nizhny Novgorod, Chechen police tried to take hostage the current federal judge Saydi Yangulbaev and his wife Zarema Musaeva. This case received worldwide publicity, even the Australian media wrote about it. Ramzan Kadyrov, who publicly threatened the family of a federal judge with prison or death, called me a “terrorist” at the same time. Statements like these from an A-class official, a Russian governor, and a police general are directly related to my professional work covering human rights violations in Chechnya.
