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29 December 2021, 15:06

Activist Abubakar Yangulbaev released from police

Abubakar Yangulbaev, a lawyer for the North-Caucasian branch of the "Committee against Torture" (CaT), who had reported about kidnapping of his relatives in Chechnya, has been set free from the police, but his advocate was not allowed to visit him.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on December 28, Yangulbaev's home was searched, and his equipment was seized.

Let us remind you that on December 25, Yangulbaev stated that 37 of his relatives had been kidnapped in Chechnya. The next day it became known that some of them had returned home.

Apart from Yangulbaev, on December 22-24, the critics of Chechen authorities, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, Minkail Malizaev and Khasan Khalitov, reported about the kidnapping of their relatives living in Chechnya, as well as the kidnapping of relatives of Mansur Sadulaev, the founder of the "Vayfond" Association, and of Aslan Artsuev, the director of the organization "Human Rights Centre Ichkeria".

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on December 28, 2021 at 05:01 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.

Author: Alyona Sadovskaya Source: CK correspondent

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