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A court in Grozny has granted a motion of Zarema Musaeva's defence for a new expert examination and agreed that it should be conducted outside of Chechnya, a lawyer for the Team Against Torture* has informed.

The film by Malika Musaeva, a pupil of the famous film director, Alexander Sokurov, entitled "A bird is looking for a cage" has been included into the Encounters programme of the Berlin Film Festival.

A Chechen expert was not able to confirm in court his conclusions about the harm to the health of the law enforcer, whom, according to the investigators’ version, was scratched by Zarema Musaeva. An independent expert stated that the conclusions of the first examination were unfounded.

Continuation of the blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, fate of Azerbaijani oppositionists, Kadyrov’s dispute with Russian generals, Yangulbaev family case, firing in Sagaredjo, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of January 16-22, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

On the day when a year passed since the detention of Zarema Musaeva by Chechen law enforcers, her son Abubakar Yangulbaev called on Ramzan Kadyrov to release his mother on exchange terms.

In 2022, amid the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, Chechen authorities continued suppressing the dissent, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) has noted. Its report also mentions the persecutions of opponents of mobilization in Dagestan.

Despite the medical documents about the deterioration of her health condition, the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya has upheld the extension of the arrest of Zarema Musaeva.

The representative of the prosecutor's office has demanded to take into account the opinion of the victim before adding to Zarema Musaeva's case files the expert's conclusions, which contradict the prosecution's version. The court agreed to interrogate the law enforcer, of attacking whom Musaeva is accused.

A court in Grozny has rejected the defence's motion to release Zarema Musaeva from custody and extended her arrest until February 12, her advocate has informed. Her son has treated her health condition as satisfactory.

Zarema Musaeva, a spouse of former federal judge Saidi Yangulbaev, denied accusations of attacking a policeman, recalling how she was forcibly taken away from home without medicines and clothes.

The “Rosfinmonitoring” (the Russian Federal Service for Financial Monitoring) has included Baisangur Yangulbaev in the list of extremists and terrorists.

Several letters were not delivered to Zarema Musaeva to the SIZO (pre-trial prison), although they were censored and accepted, her son Abubakar Yangulbaev has stated.

Investigators from Nizhny Novgorod have begun checking the applications about possible abuse of authority by law enforcers during the detention of Zarema Musaeva. The check was launched only after the applications were transferred from Chechnya to Nizhny Novgorod, the "Team against Torture" (TaT)* has informed.

By extending the arrest of Zarema Musaeva, the court in Grozny has upheld the investigators' unjustified arguments that a sick woman could escape from the republic, Abubakar Yangulbaev, a lawyer and one of two Musaeva's son, has stated.

In Grozny, a court pronounced a decision to extend the arrest of Zarema Musaeva, a spouse of former federal judge Saidi Yangulbaev, for three months. This was reported by the “Team Against Torture”*.