US State Department: we call on the head of Chechnya Kadyrov to stop repression and persecution
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Washington is concerned about reports of harassment and detentions of citizens in the Chechen Republic, in particular, directed against relatives of local human rights defenders. This is reported in a statement by the US State Department, which was made available to
The American side called for the release of all unfairly detained prisoners in Chechnya. Washington also condemned the pressure on relatives of citizens living outside Russia. “Such actions that harm entire families represent a particularly pernicious form of repression,” the statement said. In particular, we are talking about the abduction of the wife of the former judge of the Supreme Court of Chechnya, Saydi Yangulbayev, Zarema Musayeva.
The State Department criticized the policy of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov. He was called upon to stop repressions and persecution against dissidents, representatives of LGBT, national and religious minorities. In addition, the United States appealed to the Russian authorities with a demand to bring to justice all those responsible for human rights violations in the Chechen territory.
On January 21, armed men in civilian clothes, who introduced themselves as Chechen security forces, broke into the apartment of ex-judge Yangulbayev in the Nizhny Novgorod region, from where they abducted his diabetic wife Zarema Musayeva. Now the woman is in the special detention center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic, she was detained on an administrative offense – for insulting and attacking a policeman.
