In a draft resolution, the European Parliament has called on Georgian authorities to immediately withdraw the constitutional lawsuit seeking to ban opposition parties. The document is set for a vote on October 8, following a debate on the country's political situation taking place in Strasbourg on October 7.
In colony-settlement No. 3 of the city of Argun (Chechnya), recently transferred Zarema Musaeva, suffering from a number of diseases, was put on preventive registration. The administration of the institution considers her dangerous and prone to attacking law enforcement officers, the Team Against Torture reported. Earlier, human rights activists noted that the mother of Chechen activists, Zarema Musaeva, moves in the colony with the help of a cane and experiences back pain.
In July, a court in Grozny found Zarema Musayeva guilty of using violence against a police officer and sentenced her to five and a half years in prison. According to lawyers, due to her health condition, the woman cannot serve her sentence. She suffers from type 2 diabetes and has had persistent nosebleeds and arm pain. In September, the Supreme Court of Chechnya commuted the sentence to 5 years in a penal colony.
Zarema Musayeva is the mother of Chechen activists Abubakar, Ibragim and Baysangur Yangulbaev. In January last year, she was abducted by security forces from an apartment in Nizhny Novgorod and taken to Grozny. Later, a criminal case was opened against her under the article of violence against a police officer.