Convict Zarema Musayeva began to experience severe swelling and her eyesight sharply deteriorated in a colony settlement in the Chechen city of Argun. This was announced by Team Against Torture lawyer Alexander Savin. Musaeva said that at the hospital where she had recently been admitted, she was diagnosed with cataracts and prescribed new medications.

“According to her, she began to see worse and worse, and by the time she was hospitalized she saw only silhouettes. She started having severe pain in her knee. Now Musaeva constantly takes painkillers. The causes of these pains have not been diagnosed,” Savin said.

In December 2023, the lawyer of the “Team Against Torture” sent a request to the Shalinsky City Court of Chechnya to conduct a medical commission for Zarema Musayeva. The woman has insulin-dependent type 2 diabetes and a number of chronic diseases. With such a state of health, according to the law, a person should not be kept in prison.

In early March, the Pyatigorsk Court of Cassation commuted the sentence of Zarema Musaeva from 5 to 4 years and 9 months in prison.

Last year in Grozny, Musayeva was sentenced to five and a half years in a penal colony on charges of using violence against a government official. In September, the Supreme Court of the Chechen Republic reduced the sentence by six months. In December, the Shali City Court of Chechnya denied Musaeva parole.
 
Let us remind you that on January 20, 2022, police officers from Chechnya came to Nizhny Novgorod and took Zarema Musaeva away. After being taken to Grozny, the woman was accused of using violence against a police officer. According to investigators, she scratched his face.

Zarema Musayeva is the mother of Chechen activists Abubakar, Ibragim and Baysangur Yangulbaev. Human rights activists believe that she was kidnapped as a hostage and convicted of her sons’ opposition activities.