Zarema Musaeva questioned in court about attack on penal colony employee

In Chechnya, a court questioned Zarema Musaeva in a case on disruption of the activities of a penal colony. The version of physical harm inflicted to a penal colony employee is a pre-planned fabrication and revenge, Zarema Musaeva claims.

The “Caucasian Knot” has reported that on March 21, at the first court hearing in the case on disruption of the activities of the penal colony, Zarema Musaeva refused to plead guilty. The Shali City Court extended her arrest for other six months.

At trial, Zarema Musaeva claimed that she had no conflict with the penal colony employee over her medical treatment, an activist from the “Team Against Torture”* reported.

Zarema Musaeva reported that on October 29, 2024, she was unusually placed in the back seat of a police wagon, although earlier she had always been placed in the front seat. It was more comfortable for her, since she used crutches, and there was a place to put them in the front seat. An employee of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN) told Zarema Musaeva: “Your children write all sorts of things, including about me. I will say that you attacked me.” Zarema Musaeva was in a frustrated state after the treatment with IV drips and did not attach any importance to the words of the penal colony employee, the activist from the “Team Against Torture”* quoted Zarema Musaeva as testifying.

The fact that Zarema Musaeva was transported in the back seat of the police wagon that day now allows the penal colony administration claim that she allegedly attacked the penal colony employee who was sitting in front of her, the human rights defender has added.

*The “Team against Torture” (TaT, formerly the “Committee against Torture” – CaT) was created by the lawyers who had earlier worked for the CaT, which was included into the register of the NCOs performing the functions of foreign agents.