Human rights NGOs are calling on the Russian authorities to shed full light on the kidnapping of Zarema Moussaeva. Originally from Chechnya, she is the mother of a former lawyer for the NGO Committee against Torture and a virulent critic of the regime of Ramzan Kadyrov. At the weekend, men broke into her apartment in Nizhny Novgorod, central Russia, and took her thousands of miles away to Chechnya.
Zarema Moussaeva appears in a short video, broadcast by Chechen television: she claims to have suffered no bad treatment and to have received insulin for her diabetes. The Chechen authorities maintain that the mother of the family must be questioned as part of an investigation into fraud.
But Ibragim Yangulbaev, a refugee in Europe, believes that his mother is paying for his commitment and that of his brother. He himself had been kidnapped in Chechnya in 2015. They tortured me. Ramzan Kadyrov himself tortured me. I was tortured with electricity, and various objects. I was detained 6 months in a cellar “.
On Telegram, Ramzan Kadyrov directly threatens the Yangulbaev family: “ She must be in jail or underground writes the Chechen leader. As for the Kremlin, its spokesman, Dmitri Peskov affirms that he is not aware of the details of the kidnapping in Nizhny Novgorod and even prefers “ don’t believe it “.
An attitude that does not surprise Ibragim Yangulbaev. “ Ramzan Kadyrov can kidnap anyone who criticizes him anywhere in Russia. Kadyrov’s power has been established and is supported by Vladimir Putin. Russia is responsible for what is happening in Chechnya: the kidnappings, the tortures, the murders, because these people are officials of the Russian Federation. »
The Committee against Torture urgently seized the European Court of Human Rights considering that the life of Zarema Moussaeva was in danger.