In Chechnya, the judge in the case of Zarema Musayeva was denied recusal.

Zarema Musayeva’s lawyers challenged the presiding judge, Musa Vagapov. The defence argued that he belonged to the panel of the Supreme Court of Chechnya and that his son worked for the Prosecutor’s Office. The applicants were rejected immediately.
It should be recalled that the mother of Chechen opponents Ibrahim and Abubakar Yangulbayev were kidnapped in January 2022 in Nizhny Novgorod, and then taken to Chechnya. Despite his health problems, Zarema Musaeva is being held at the detention centre of Grozny as a person involved in the case of assault of a policeman. She allegedly scratched the face of a police officer. The examination did not confirm this fact. 
The investigation twice refused to investigate the abduction of Zarema Musayeva. «The Team against Torture» filed more than 60 petitions and complaints against police officers in a year.

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