A member for Chechnya at Duma, the lower room of the Russian Parliament, published a message calling to “decapitate” the members of the Ingoulbayev family. His appeal was immediately taken up by several Chechen officials. Interviewed, the Kremlin “does not see any need to take an interest in this situation”.
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Even in a Russia where the rule of law has been relegated to the rank of fiction, the Chechen drift takes an ever more spectacular turn. In a few days, the authorities of this territory of the North Caucasus have gone from an arrest presented like that of mere witnesses in a case of fraud to decapitation threats openly launched on social networks by the highest Chechen officials.
This new stage comes after violent removal, disguised as arrest, on January 31, from the mother of opponents to the Chechen leader, Ramzan Kadyrov. The status of former judge at the Supreme Court of the Father, Saidi Iangoulbayev, 63, was only enough only to avoid an arrest himself.
The case is part of a campaign of kidnappings affecting dozens of relatives and members of families in exile opponents. The Iangoulbayev episode had a particular emotion in Russia, because this family is installed in the city of Nijni Novgorod, 1,500 kilometers from Grozny, the Chechen capital, which did not have the least intimidated the nervis. Ramzan Kadyrov.
“in prison or underground”
The real targets of this operation, the Ingoulbayev sons, do not have anything extremists. One was a lawyer for the Committee against Torture; The other collaborates on various media, including 1adat, a Telegram chain that acts as the last independent media operating – clandestinely – from Chechnya.
In the stride, the family members who could fled Russia. The mother, Zarema Iangoulbayeva, 59, has, for his part, been transferred to Grozny and placed in pre-trial detention. Diabetic, brought to half fainting and socks in the snow, it is now accused of aggression against a representative of the police, a crime punishable by ten years in prison. Ramzan Kadyrov himself had not played the fable of legality for a long time, considering that the place of the Iangoulbayev family, “Incarnation of the treachery”, was “in prison or underground”.
The Kremlin reaction – “We prefer not to believe it” – had confirmed two well-known facts in Russia: the laws of the Federation do not apply to Ramzan Kadyrov; This one considers itself, for reason, free to act well beyond the borders of his republic.
The sequence of events shows that the finding is even more serious. Rather than letting the situation calm down, Chechen leaders embarked on an outbidder for the Iangoulbayev family, but that sounds more and more as a challenge openly launched in central power.
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