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| Leila Gatagazheva transferred to house arrest |
| 2023-12-31 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] The defense convinced the court in Malgobek to release from custody Leila Gatagazheva, a native of Ingushetia, accused of having ties with Islamic State militants* in Syria. As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, on November 29, the Malgobek City Court extended until December 31 the arrest of a native of Ingushetia, Leila Gatagazheva, accused of collaborating with militants in Syria. On June 18, the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced that Leila Gatagazheva had been extradited from Iraq. She is accused of working for Islamic State militants in Syria. She has already served five years in an Iraqi prison on a similar charge, said the defense, which is seeking to have the criminal case dismissed. The Malgobek City Court changed the preventive measure for Leila Gatagazheva and sent her under house arrest, the Memorial Human Rights Protection Center reports today on its website. The meeting took place on December 29, at which a representative of the investigation insisted on extending the arrest. He explained that, once free, Gatagazheva could hide and put pressure on witnesses. In turn, lawyer Ramina Labazanova said that her client does not have not only a foreign passport, but also an ordinary civil passport, and asked the investigator to explain on what these fears are based. “The investigator was unable to do this. And when asked by Judge Ferdovs Batyrova how the investigation established Gatagazheva’s identity, he replied that using the birth certificate,” Memorial reported. The judge changed the preventive measure and assigned Gatagazheva house arrest for a period of two months. “Hearing the court ruling, Gatagazheva burst into tears. For the first time in the last six and a half years, she will spend the night outside of a cell,” the publication says. Leila Gatagazheva, born in 2001, is a mother of two children, she is accused of aiding terrorist activities (Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and participation in an illegal armed formation on the territory of Syria (Part 2 of Article 208 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), the publication notes. Let us recall that earlier Gatagazheva’s lawyer reported that in 2019 a criminal case was opened against her client under the article on organizing the activities of a terrorist organization and participating in its activities (Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). In 2020, Gatagazheva was put on the wanted list. In 2022, another criminal case was opened against her under the article on participation in an illegal armed formation on the territory of a foreign state (Part 2 of Article 208 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The charges were brought in absentia. In June 2023, Gatagazheva was released from an Iraqi prison and was extradited to Russia. In 2014, Gatagazheva’s mother with four children, her brother and his family left for Syria from Ingushetia. There, Leila was forcibly married when she was 13 years old. In 2017, her husband was killed, she was left at the age of 16 with two children and a paralyzed mother-in-law. Gatagazheva surrendered to the Iraqi authorities. Her mother-in-law, sentenced to 15 years, died in prison, Leila herself was sentenced to five years in prison, her children lived with her in prison. https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/395798 |
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