In Nizhny Novgorod, offensive posters were pasted over the doors of the entrance and the apartment where the mother of human rights activist Igor Kalyapin, head of the «Committee against Torture» lives. Kalyapin posted a photo of the posters on Facebook.
It was written on the entrance door that Kalyapin was a «foreign agent» and «sold his fatherland for grants from the United States and Germany», and at the entrance to the apartment — that «Igor Kalyapin protects terrorists . Shame on a foreign agent.»
“One might think that these are not very smart kids hooligans … But the video cameras recorded the faces of people who were by no means teenagers,” the human rights activist added. He posted a frame from a surveillance camera at the entrance to the entrance, on which there was a man in a hood and with his face covered.
On January 24, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that he considers Kalyapin and Novaya Gazeta journalist Elena Milashina to be terrorists, «who make money on the topic of the Chechen Republic and Chechens, developing scenarios and whispering texts and behaviors into the ears of your characters.
Killing, imprisoning, scaring. The abduction of the judge's wife by Chechen security forces in Nizhny Novgorod is the main thing
This was due to the detention in Nizhny Novgorod of the wife of former federal judge Saidi Yangulbaev Zarema Musaeva: under the pretext of interrogation, she was taken to Chechnya and arrested for 15 days. The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, also accused the judge of the family of terrorism and urged them to detain them, and in case of resistance, destroy them.
Yangulbaev's son Abubakar worked as a lawyer in the «Committee against Torture». Human rights activists help his mother. Lawyers were not allowed to see her after her arrest in Chechnya, after which the woman wrote a refusal of lawyers in the special detention center. Previously, the «Committee against Torture» also defended the interests of other residents of Chechnya who suffered from torture by the security forces. Kadyrov had previously accused Kalyapin of “funding militants”, in 2014 the apartment of human rights activists in Grozny was burned down.
Kadyrov’s feud with the Yangulbaevs began in 2015, when a judge of the Supreme Court of Chechnya and his two sons, according to them, kidnapped, taken to the residence of the head of the republic and tortured. This happened because of the critical posts of the youngest son of judge Ibragim in social networks against the Chechen authorities. After that, the Chechen authorities connected the sons of the judge with the telegram channel 1ADAT, which criticized Kadyrov.