11:55, 24 July 2025

The prosecution requested four years in a penal colony for Zarema Musayeva

During the debate, the prosecutor requested four years in a penal colony for Zarema Musayeva in the case of an attack on a colony employee.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel wrote, on June 24, an FSIN employee who is a victim in Zarema Musayeva's case of disrupting the colony's activities, told the court that the convict demanded that she be left in a medical facility and repeatedly insulted him. This statement was not confirmed by any of the 14 witnesses. Despite the fact that the testimony of witnesses and evidence clearly show Zarema Musayeva's innocence, the verdict of the Chechen court in the politically motivated case is a foregone conclusion, the human rights activist believes.

On the evening of January 20, 2022, people who introduced themselves as employees of the Chechen security forces broke into the apartment of retired federal judge Saidi Yangulbaev in Nizhny Novgorod and attempted to take him away for questioning. But such actions required permission from the Prosecutor General's Office and the High Qualification Collegium of Judges; instead, his wife Zarema Musayeva was taken to the republic.A criminal case was opened against her: according to investigators, she scratched the face of one of the security officials at the police station. In July 2023, the court sentenced Zarema Musayeva to 5.5 years, then the Supreme Court of Chechnya reduced Zarema Musayeva's prison term to five years. At the end of 2024, a new criminal case was opened against Musayeva for an alleged attack on a prison officer who was accompanying her to the hospital.

The Shali City Court is continuing its debate on the case of Zarema Musayeva today. According to investigators, the seriously ill woman allegedly attacked an FSIN officer and scratched his neck - none of the witnesses saw this.

Musaeva is charged under the article on disorganization of the activities of the colony (part 2 of article 321 of the Criminal Code). The prosecution requested four years in prison for her, reports the Team Against Torture*.

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