Zarema Musayeva asked not to be sent to a penal colony-settlement

Zarema Musayeva, accused of disrupting the activities of the colony (Part 2 of Article 321 of the Criminal Code), gave her final statement in the Shali City Court of Chechnya. She asked not to be sent to penal colony-settlement No. 3, where she had previously served her sentence and where the FSIN employee who accused her of assault works. Musayeva fears for her life in this colony.

“I have one huge request to the director of the FSIN - that they not send me to penal colony-settlement No. 3. I fear for my life. I beg everyone who can help me to help me, and I will not end up there,” the defendant said.

Earlier, the state prosecution asked to sentence her to four years. The court retired to a deliberation room, the verdict will be announced on August 6.

According to investigators, Musayeva, while seriously ill, attacked an FSIN officer and scratched his neck, but the people questioned as witnesses did not see this.

Zarema Musayeva is the wife of former federal judge Saidi Yangulbaev and the mother of Chechen activists Abubakar, Ibragim, and Baysangur Yangulbaev. In early March 2024, the Pyatigorsk Cassation Court reduced her sentence on the previous charge, reducing her prison term from 5 years to 4 years and 9 months. In July 2023, a court in Grozny found the woman guilty of using violence against a police officer and fraud and sentenced her to five years in prison. According to investigators, she scratched the face of a police officer from Chechnya while she was being transported from Nizhny Novgorod to Grozny. Human rights activists claim that the woman was kidnapped as a hostage and convicted for her sons' opposition activities.

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