The Shali City Court of Chechnya continued to consider the criminal case against Zarema Musayeva. She is accused of disrupting the activities of the colony. According to the investigation, the seriously ill woman allegedly attacked the guard who was escorting her to the hospital, scratched his neck and tore off his shoulder strap.

For the first time, the court was able to question the so-called "victim" - an employee of the Federal Penitentiary Service. He stated that Musayeva repeatedly insulted him, but none of the 14 witnesses confirmed this.

According to the lawyer of the "Team Against Torture" Alexander Savin, the FSIN employee claimed that Musayeva demanded that she be left in the medical facility and not taken back to the colony. But Zarema herself and the witnesses know that there is no 24-hour hospital and it is impossible to stay there permanently.

The parties will debate on July 14.

Zarema Musayeva is the wife of former federal judge Saidi Yangulbaev and the mother of Chechen activists Abubakar, Ibragim, and Baysangur Yangulbaev. In early March 2024, the Pyatigorsk Cassation Court mitigated her sentence on the previous charge, reducing her prison term from 5 years to 4 years and 9 months. In July 2023, a court in Grozny found the woman guilty of using violence against a police officer and fraud and sentenced her to five years in prison. According to investigators, she scratched the face of a Chechen police officer while transporting her from Nizhny Novgorod to Grozny. Human rights activists claim that the woman was kidnapped as a hostage and convicted for her sons' opposition activities.

On March 23, Zarema Musayeva would have been released if not for the charges in the new case.