Diplomats from Germany and the Netherlands attended the court session in the case of Zarema Musaeva

For the first time since 2018, employees of foreign embassies visited Chechnya. Diplomats from the Netherlands and Germany came to the next session of the Shalyna City Court on a new criminal case against Zarema Musaeva. The purpose of their presence is to express their support and concern for the situation with respect to human rights in Chechnya.

Three female witnesses, who were in the same cell with Musaeva, described her from the most positive side. One of them admitted that the conflict that arose between them earlier was not Zarema's fault. One of the doctors called the defendant a nice, kind woman. Earlier, prosecution witnesses from among FSIN employees reported that they did not see how Musaeva used violence against their colleague.

According to the investigation, the seriously ill woman allegedly attacked the escort accompanying her to the hospital, scratched his neck and tore off his shoulder strap. Musaeva denies the accusations against him. Earlier in court, she quoted the words of the allegedly injured Bekbulatov: "Your children write everything, including about me. I will say that you attacked me." The surgeon questioned in court said that the victim had a small scratch on his neck and he did not provide him with any medical assistance.

Zarema Musaeva is the wife of former federal judge Sayda Yangulbayev and the mother of Chechen activists Abubakar, Ibrahim and Baisangur Yangulbayev. In early March 2024, the Pyatigorsk Court of Cassation reduced her sentence on the previous charge, reducing the term of imprisonment from 5 years to 4 years and 9 months. In July 2023, a court in Grozny found the woman guilty of violence against a police officer and fraud and sentenced her to five years in prison. The investigation believes that she scratched the face of a police officer from Chechnya during her delivery from Nizhny Novgorod to Grozny. Human rights activists claim that the woman was kidnapped as a hostage and convicted for her sons' opposition activities.