Zarema Musayeva quoted threats from a security guard whose face she allegedly scratched

The hearing on the criminal case of disruption of the colony's activities against Zarema Musayeva continued in the Shali City Court of Chechnya. According to the investigation, she, being seriously ill, attacked FSIN employee Bekbulatov and scratched his neck. It is noteworthy that he did not ask the defendant a single question in court.

From the written testimony of the "victim", it follows that Musayeva attacked the security guard in the service car that was driving her from the hospital. Allegedly, she scratched his face because she was denied hospital treatment.

Zarema Musayeva said that there was no conflict. She has been observed at the dispensary for a long time in a day hospital setting and it is convenient for her. The woman has insulin-dependent diabetes of the second type.

In addition, on October 29, when she allegedly attacked an FSIN officer, she was put in the back seat of a car for the first time. Musayeva herself quoted Bekbulatov's words in court: "Your children write all sorts of things, including about me. I will say that you attacked me." The woman says that she was on IVs and did not attach any importance to these words.

Zarema Musayeva is the wife of former federal judge Saidi Yangulbaev and the mother of Chechen activists Ibragim, Baysangur, and Abubakar Yangulbaev. In early March 2024, the Pyatigorsk Cassation Court mitigated 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. Investigators believe that she scratched the face of a Chechen police officer during her transfer from Nizhny Novgorod to Grozny. Human rights activists claim that the woman was kidnapped as a hostage and convicted for her sons' opposition activities.

In January 2022, a scandal broke out in the Russian Federation, which was provisionally called the "Yangulbayev case". Then, Abubakar Yangulbayev, a lawyer for the Committee Against Torture, reported the disappearance of several dozen of his relatives in Chechnya. In August 2023, he said that four of his relatives were forcibly sent to war in Ukraine, having been registered as volunteers. It is noteworthy that all of Musayeva's sons became defendants in criminal cases under terrorist articles. The media reported that they are currently abroad. The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, stated that "the Yangulbayevs as a whole family unequivocally support terrorist groups."

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