Zarema Musayeva intends to appeal the new sentence

Zarema Musayeva decided to appeal the sentence in the new criminal case after reading the reasoning of the decision of the Shali City Court of Chechnya. On August 6, she was sentenced to 3 years and 11 months in a penal colony on charges of disrupting the activities of a correctional institution.

According to investigators, Musayeva attacked an FSIN employee. Taking into account the unserved month in the previous case, the final term of imprisonment was 4 years. Musayeva's lawyer, Alexander Savin, stated that the decision to appeal was supported by the defense and an appeal was filed with the court.

According to the case materials, Musayeva allegedly attacked the escort during transportation to the hospital, scratching his neck and damaging his shoulder strap. At the same time, the testimony of the FSIN employees is contradictory: one of the escorts claimed that Musayeva hit and scratched him, while the second did not see this.

Zarema Musayeva, the 55-year-old wife of former Chechen judge Saidi Yangulbaev and mother of opposition activists critical of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, was detained in January 2022 in Nizhny Novgorod by Chechen security forces. In July 2023, a court in Grozny sentenced her to 5.5 years in prison on charges of violence against a police officer and fraud. She was due to be released in March of this year.

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