Mansur Movlaev, who was put on the wanted list in Russia and fled from the Chechen authorities, has received the status of an asylum seeker in Kazakhstan. He also asked not to be extradited to Russia.
“I ask for your full support so that I am not extradited to Chechnya. I understand that Chechens who are in their homeland cannot openly support me, since they too may face problems because of this. Only those Chechens who live outside the CIS can publicly support me. I ask you not to remain silent and do everything possible to help,” Movlaev said on the Instagram page of his lawyer Murat Azham.
In 2020, Mansur Movlaev was sentenced to three years on charges of financing extremism. Human rights activists claimed that he was persecuted for criticizing the Chechen authorities and speaking out against human rights violations and repression. In 2022, he was released on parole, but was detained by security forces in Chechnya. Movlaev managed to escape and illegally reach Kyrgyzstan. After a court in Kyrgyzstan ruled to deport him to Russia, he left the republic.
