Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov at a briefing refused to comment on the threats of State Duma deputy from Chechnya Adam Delimkhanov to “tear off the head” of the family of a retired Chechen judge. He is quoted by «Medusa».
«Rate actions deputies is not our function,” Peskov said. — This is a function of the State Duma and the committee that deals with ethics. If I'm not mistaken, certain assessments were given by the representative of this committee. We would not want to interfere in this process.”
The Kremlin representative also promised that President Vladimir Putin «will be informed today» about the appeal of the editor-in-chief of «Ekho Moskvy» Alexei Venediktov because of the threats of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, to the journalists of «Novaya Gazeta» and «Rain». Venediktov asked Putin “as the guarantor of the Constitution to intervene in this situation.”
«Tear off your heads, work on you, kill you» . The head of Chechnya and the deputy of the State Duma again threaten the family of a retired judge
Yesterday, Kadyrov and Delimkhanov discussed retired Chechen judge Saydi Yangulbayev during an Instagram broadcast. The Chechen authorities connected the sons of the judge with the telegram channel 1ADAT, which talks about kidnappings and torture in the republic, and also criticizes Kadyrov and his entourage. order to cut off their heads. Kadyrov responded by calling Novaya Gazeta, its journalist Yelena Milashina, the Dozhd channel, and the head of the Committee against Torture, Igor Kalyapin, who covered the conflict, “accomplices of terrorists.”
In 2015, Judge Yangulbaev and his sons were detained and were taken to Kadyrov's residence because of the judge's younger son Ibragim's criticism of the authorities of the republic. The Yangulbaevs said they were beaten and Saydi Yangulbaev was forced to resign. In January 2022, Chechen policemen arrived at Yangulbaev's home in Nizhny Novgorod and took the judge's wife to Chechnya under the pretext of interrogation. There she was arrested. The younger son of Yangulbaev was put on the wanted list on charges of justifying terrorism in 1ADAT.