The summons to bring Zarema Musayeva, who was forcibly taken by the security forces from Nizhny Novgorod to Chechnya, as a witness in a criminal case could be written «backdating». This was reported to Novaya Gazeta in the Committee Against Torture*.
The subpoenas (at Novaya Gazeta's disposal) are dated January 11, on that very day the investigator issued them. At the same time, the date of the meeting in Grozny as witnesses, where the Yangulbaevs were summoned, was scheduled for January 13. Even if they were sent from Grozny by mail, they would simply not have reached the addressee until January 13, human rights activists say, since the distance between Nizhny Novgorod and the city of Grozny is almost two thousand kilometers.
Also, the date is on the envelope shipments from Grozny on January 26 (the postmark puts on the day the letter was received), when Musaeva had already been forcibly taken to Chechnya and brought to administrative responsibility.
“This suggests that the subpoenas could have been written by the number» in order to «observe the procedure»,» the checkpoint noted.
Photo courtesy of Novaya Gazeta by the Committee Against Torture”
The address on the envelopes, according to human rights activists, is also incorrect — the city of Gorodetsky, but they arrived on February 5 at the registration address of the Yangulbaevs (the city of Zavolzhye, Gorodetsky district).
< p>Chairman of the Committee against Torture, Sergei Babinets, in a conversation with Novaya Gazeta, said that this could be considered improper notification. Therefore, the drive should not have been issued, he added.
“Perhaps this will help to appeal the procedural actions, namely the decision to bring Zarema Musayeva and Saydi Yangulbaev to the court, and the drive itself may be declared illegal.
We will use this information in the legal work on this case, because the subpoenas were sent in the wrong way,” said Babinets.
According to him, it is necessary that an official check be carried out, and the “Committee against Torture” will turn to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation on this fact.
“With such justice as in the Chechen Republic, it is virtually impossible to refer to the Code of Criminal Procedure. They have their own law enforcement practice, which they use as they want. But if this case is transferred for consideration to another region or to another division of the Investigative Committee, then objectivity will increase,” Babinets summed up. class=»SingleImage_image__3qIDn» alt=»» />
Zarema Musaeva. Screen: video, social networks
Today it became known that the Supreme Court of the Chechen Republic refused to change Musaeva's preventive measure from a pre-trial detention center to house arrest. Human rights activists said that the woman still feels unwell and has difficulty walking. She attended the court session via video link. Musayeva is under arrest in the case of the use of dangerous violence against a security official (part 2 of article 318 of the Criminal Code).