The court issued a 5.5-year prison sentence to Saydi Yangulbaev, the wife of Zarema Musaeva, who formerly served as a judge on the Supreme Court of Chechnya, in a case involving violence and fraud against police officers. Reports about the verdict came from TASS.
In January 2022, family members of Zarema Musayeva said unidentified men in plain clothes arrived at her apartment in Nizhny Novgorod. They reportedly presented an arrest warrant and demanded her forcible transport to Grozny for questioning in Chechnya. The 52-year-old woman was subsequently taken to Grozny and held there as authorities pursued the matter. Human rights advocates noted that she suffers from diabetes but was not allowed access to essential medications during detention.
The Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs claimed that Musaeva was brought in for questioning as a witness in a fraud investigation. Later statements from the ministry asserted that she attacked a police officer. Investigators described an incident in which Musayeva allegedly used vulgar language and exhibited aggression while standing near a police task force. Officers reported that she violated the law and indicated they would file a charge of hooliganism. Following these events, the ministry alleged that Musayeva assaulted, scratched, and struck a law enforcement officer.
Musayeva was detained in a special facility and a criminal case opened on charges of assaulting a police officer. She spent approximately one and a half years in pre-trial detention before prosecutors urged a sentence of 5.5 years in a penal colony. Further specifics were referenced in a materials piece by New Newspapers.
Earlier reports also mentioned another, separate incident involving a Moscow student who reportedly took antidepressants and required hospitalization on the day of an examination.