Human rights activists have announced the fabrication of a criminal case against a native of Chechnya
A new criminal case has been opened against 50-year-old Khamidulla Yapov under the article on participation in an armed mutiny, a gang, and an attempt on the lives of military personnel (Articles 209, 279, and 317 of the Criminal Code). This happened on the day when he was supposed to be released from a penal colony in the Vladimir region after serving a 14-year sentence. The reason was his participation in one of the battles in the second Russian-Chechen war, the Memorial Human Rights Center reported.
Khamidulla Yapov has already served two sentences for participation in a Chechen armed group, which he left 25 years ago. This time, he is accused of involvement in an attack on Russian security forces on October 4, 1999, near the village of Chervlennaya in the Shelkovsky District of Chechnya.
Khamidulla Yapov is a native of Stavropol Krai, he joined a Chechen unit in 1999. In 2000, he turned himself in to law enforcement. He was counting on the declared amnesty, but since then he has been sentenced twice: first to 4 and then to 14 years in prison.
“Cases against former militants are often falsified. Even those who, like Khamidulla, turned themselves in or voluntarily laid down their arms are accused of new episodes of crime, again and again being returned to prison,” Memorial summarizes.
