HRC to send Ramzan Kadyrov's statements on "people's enemies" for examination

Evgeny Bobrov, Deputy Chairman of the Presidential Council on Human Rights (HRC), has noted that he had instructed his colleagues from the HRC to collect all the public statements made by Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov and his subordinates (including Magomed Daudov, Speaker of the Chechen Parliament) against the opposition.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on January 12, Ramzan Kadyrov said that the non-systemic opposition should be treated "as public enemies and traitors," who are trying to stagger the situation in Russia. Human rights defenders, opposition leaders, the Russian Ombudsman, and intellectuals have sharply criticized the statement made by the Chechen leader on January 12. On January 18, Maxim Reznik, an MP from Saint Petersburg, filed to the General Prosecutor's Office an appeal with a request to verify the Ramzan Kadyrov's statement for extremism.

The HRC has decided to pass the statements made by Ramzan Kadyrov for the linguists' examination. According to Evgeny Bobrov, depending on the results of examination, human rights defenders "can ask President Vladimir Putin to dismiss Ramzan Kadyrov and the General Prosecutor's Office to verify the statements for the presence of components of crime and to bring the Chechen leader to responsibility," the "Kommersant" reports on January 18.

Evgeny Bobrov has emphasized that it is simply unacceptable for a politician to make such statements.

Ramzan Kadyrov himself has said that he "does not threaten anybody" and that he has no claims against "legitimate opposition."

According to the Chechen leader, his statement made on January 12 was addressed to the people who "left Russia and disseminated aspersion and slander against our country from abroad."

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.