Chechen who fled Russia detained in Kazakhstan

Mansur Movlaev, who was put on the wanted list in Russia and fled from the Chechen authorities, was detained in Almaty. It is reported that he had been living in this Kazakh city for the past year and a half.

In 2020, Mansur Movlaev was sentenced to three years on charges of financing extremism. Human rights activists claim that he was persecuted for criticizing the Chechen authorities and speaking out against human rights violations and repression. In 2022, he was released on parole, but he was detained by security forces in Chechnya. Movlaev managed to escape and illegally reach Kyrgyzstan.

After a court in Kyrgyzstan ruled to deport Movlaev to Russia, he left the republic.

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