The Yangulbaev case (Russian: Дело Янгулбаевых) is a socio-political scandal that erupted in Russia in early 2022. Lawyer of the Committee for the Prevention of Torture Abubakar Yangulbaev announced the disappearance of several dozen of his relatives in Chechnya.[1] After that, the Chechen security forces forcibly took his mother Zarema Musayeva (wife of a retired federal judge) from Nizhny Novgorod to Grozny,[2] where she became a defendant in a criminal case and was sent to a pre-trial detention center. Abubakar's brother, Ibragim, was put on the federal wanted list, his father and sister hastily left Russia.[3] The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that members of the Yangulbaev family should be detained and punished, “and if they resist, then they should be destroyed as accomplices of terrorists”; he later demanded from foreign governments that the fugitives be returned to Chechnya.[4][5][6]

Abubakar Yangulbaev became a human rights activist and lawyer for the Committee for the Prevention of Torture. He regularly made sharp statements about the leadership of Chechnya, about the persecution to which his family was subjected. He was suspected of running the opposition telegram channel 1ADAT, and in 2020 Abubakar's house was searched, but this had no consequences.[7]

On February 2, 2022, a rally was held in Grozny, the participants of which burned and trampled on the portraits of the Yangulbaevs; according to official figures, there were about 400,000 protesters, compared to less than 300,000 inhabitants in Grozny.[8]

The European Union called on the Russian authorities to immediately release Musaeva.[9]

On 4 July, 2023 a court in Grozny sentenced Zarema Musayeva to 5½ years in prison on charges of fraud and assaulting a police officer, an accusation that human rights groups have rejected as trumped-up. On the same day masked assailants attacked and brutally beat Novaya Gazeta journalist Elena Milashina and lawyer Alexander Nemov who had just arrived in Grozny to attend the trial of Musayeva.[10][11]

References

  1. ↑ "Юрист северокавказского филиала "Комитета против пыток" заявил о похищении около 40 своих родственников в Чечне". Новая газета. 18 September 1984.
  2. ↑ ""Комитет против пыток" подал срочную жалобу в ЕСПЧ по правилу 39 по факту похищения жены федерального судьи Янгулбаева". Новая газета.
  3. ↑ "Судья в отставке Сайди Янгулбаев и его дочь покинули Россию". 23 January 2022. Archived from the original on 2022-02-04. Retrieved 2022-02-03.
  4. ↑ Masked assailants attack a journalist and a lawyer in Russia's Chechnya province
  5. ↑ "Депутат Госдумы Адам Делимханов поклялся отрезать головы родственникам судьи Янгулбаева и тем, кто переведет его угрозы на русский язык". The Insider. 2022-02-01. Archived from the original on 2022-02-05. Retrieved 2022-02-03.
  6. ↑ "«Отрывая вам головы». Руководство Чечни снова угрожает семье Янгулбаевых". BBC News Русская Служба. Archived from the original on 2022-02-04. Retrieved 2022-02-02.
  7. ↑ Чем семья Янгулбаевых вызвала ненависть Рамзана Кадырова и почему переехала из Чечни в Нижний Новгород. Репортаж NN.RU
  8. ↑ В Чечне на митинг против семьи Янгулбаевых вышли более 400 тысяч человек
  9. ↑ "Евросоюз призвал Россию освободить похищенную властями Чечни жену судьи Зарему Мусаеву". Радио Свобода. 24 January 2022. Archived from the original on 2022-02-03. Retrieved 2022-02-03.
  10. ↑ Masked assailants attack a journalist and a lawyer in Russia's Chechnya province
  11. ↑ Chechnya Milashina attack: Armed thugs beat up Russian journalist and lawyer


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