lawyer of the “Committee against Torture” spoke about the kidnapping of the mother by Chechen security forces

Ramzan Kadyrov could not get to me personally and started with relatives. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya fabricated some rotten case as a pretext, according to which some woman carried out fraudulent operations and my mother is a witness in this case. This is all in order to have a reason to kidnap her. They broke into the house where the judge lives and his house is inviolable. If a person has such a drive in the status of a witness, he can always refuse, but my mother was not allowed to do this. Moreover, the drive, on the basis of which they took her, was issued on January 24th.

They did not know that my father retained the status of a judge, they thought that they could take him away, but then they realized that they could not, and they took only my mother. And the mother has a good reason – she is sick with covid and, moreover, she has diabetes. We demanded that she be interrogated remotely, or on the spot in the apartment, but they refused. She was kidnapped without outerwear, without pills, they didn’t even let her inject evening insulin. Along the way, her sugar may rise and she may die.

From the very beginning, as soon as we found out that the Kadyrovites were waiting for us, we turned to the local FSB, to the police, but they did not come for several hours, stuck their heads in the sand and simply did not want to enter into conflict.

The Kadyrovites and the federal authorities, especially the security forces, have a conflict, this is a well-known fact. and for example, I was detained on a case that is with the FSB officers. And the FSB officers do not need such scandals, they do not want this.

Kadyrov personally accuses me, my brother, and our family as a whole of being involved in the ADAT Telegram channel. This is a channel that criticizes the Chechen authorities, they write about the Chechen realities – abductions, torture, murders, in which the Kadyrovites are involved, about money laundering, fraud – a full package of the Criminal Code.

This is not the first case of kidnapping in our family, this whole story has been going on since 2015. In 2015, my father was forced to resign from his position as a judge because then my father, my brother and I were already kidnapped.

Now only resonance will help my mother, calling all organs, the more people talk about it, the more chances, only this can save her. If tomorrow there is a video with my mother, it doesn’t matter to me what she says, let her say anything, as long as it saves her.