The UN Committee has requested a stay on Movlaev's extradition from Kazakhstan.

The UN Human Rights Committee received an appeal from Chechen native Mansur Movlaev and called on Kazakhstani authorities to suspend Movlaev's extradition to Russia until the appeal is considered.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," in late December 2025, officials in Kazakhstan refused to grant Mansur Movlaev refugee status. This decision was appealed, and Movlaev's defense team also sent an appeal to the relevant UN bodies requesting a stay of his extradition to Russia.

The UN Human Rights Committee demanded that the Kazakh authorities suspend Mansur Movlaev's extradition to Russia, Fatima Suleimanova, press secretary for the United Force organization, reported on the night of February 24, as reported by NewTimes.kz.

"Excellent news! The UN Human Rights Committee has banned Mansur Movlayev's extradition to Russia following a request from his representative, Vadim Drozdov. I would also like to thank our colleague Nina Belyaeva, who provided significant assistance in this matter. As a spokesperson for the Chechen movement "United Force," I maintained contact between Mansur and Nina. I really hope that Kazakhstan will comply with the UN decision," Suleimanova wrote on her Instagram page*.

On February 23, the UN Human Rights Committee registered Movlayev's complaint. and suggested that Kazakhstan refrain from extraditing him until the committee considers the complaint, the Kazakh publication "Vlast" explains today.

The Committee requests information and comments "on the admissibility and merits of the communication" no later than August 24, 2026, the publication notes.

As a reminder, in May 2025, Mansur Movlayev, who had been placed on the wanted list by the Shali District Department of Chechnya, was detained in Kazakhstan and placed under extradition arrest. On May 21, he received asylum seeker status, granting him temporary protection from being sent to Russia. Movlaev's lawyers have assured that a secret extradition is out of the question.

If extradited, Mansur Movlaev will be delivered to Chechnya, which is in the Chechen authorities' interest, human rights activists noted. Extradition to Russia would risk Movlaev's torture and extrajudicial execution, Chechen activists previously stated.

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Movlaev was born in 1995 in Shali. He told his lawyers that while studying at university, he helped the Chechen opposition movement "Adat" (an organization designated as extremist and banned in Russia) with information about people abducted by Kadyrov's men. "He was persecuted for this active position," Rena Kerimova recounted Movlaev's words to Kursiv Media.

In 2022, Movlaev was detained by security forces in Chechnya and held in an illegal prison. After escaping, he managed to reach Kyrgyzstan in January 2023. In August 2023, security forces in Kyrgyzstan detained Movlaev, who was wanted in Russia for financing extremist activity. A court in Bishkek sentenced Movlaev to six months in prison and subsequent deportation from the country. On November 20, 2023, Movlaev was released, but the decision to deport him remained in effect, and he voluntarily left Kyrgyzstan to avoid being sent home.

In October 2024, Mansur Movlaev reported the kidnapping of his relatives by security forces in Chechnya. "Two of my brothers, Zelimkhan and Khamzat, have been kidnapped. They are being held and tortured, in an attempt to put pressure on me," he said in a published video.

Caucasian Knot publishes materials about human rights violations in Chechnya, Kadyrov's attacks on the opposition, and his fight against dissent in the republic on the topic page "Dissent in Chechnya".