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[KavkazUzel] Security forces released boxer Umar Salamov, who was kidnapped in January along with residents of the village of Alkhan-Kala. Most of those abducted were convicted under the article of participation in an illegal armed group and are serving their sentences, the Memorial Human Rights Center reported.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, world and European boxing champion Umar Salamov was kidnapped by security forces
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along with residents of the village of Alkhan-Kala, Grozny district of Chechnya. He has not been charged with aiding militants,
| ...since it’s Chechnya, one assumes the militants were jihadis, probably linked to either Al Qaeda or ISIS... |
but there is still no information about his whereabouts, human rights activists Oleg Orlov and Oyub Titiev said.
Earlier, on January 18, the Memorial Center for Human Rights Protection reported that after an inspection, information from telegram channels opposition to the authorities of Chechnya about the kidnapping of at least 25 residents of the village of Alkhan-Kala by Chechen security forces was confirmed.
On April 24, human rights activists reported that a group of residents of the village of Alkhan-Kala, whose whereabouts were unknown after their abduction by security forces in January, was in one of the detention centers in Chechnya on charges of involvement in militants.
Mass abductions in Alkhan-Kala began on the evening of January 7, a Memorial Center for Human Rights volunteer found out. According to him, the security forces took the abducted people away from the village in an unknown direction, but they did not introduce themselves or say which units they belonged to.
Human rights activists confirmed that among those abducted were 14 people, whose names were named in publications on telegram channels: Said-Magomed Ayubov, Turpal Batsaraev, Magomed Vatsiev, Ramzan Vatsiev, Samad Gerikhanov, Muslim Gerikhanov, Adlan Isaev, Usman Musaev, Khamzat Solsayev, Khalim Solsaev, Adam Solsaev (director of school No. 3), Usman Khatuev, Akhyad Khatuev and Bekhan Khatuev. Among the abducted there are close relatives (the Khatuev and Solsaev brothers), Memorial reported.
World boxing champion Umar Salamov was released on the night of October 31 to November 1, volunteers of the Memorial Human Rights Center found out. According to sources in Chechnya, at least in the first months after the abduction, he was subjected to torture and humiliation, according to a report on the center's website.
Most of the kidnapped residents of Alkhan-Kala, after being held in an illegal prison, were officially registered, charged under the article of organizing an illegal armed group or participating in it (Article 208 of the Criminal Code provides for up to 20 years in prison), and sentenced to terms ranging from two years six months to 10 years in prison, the Memorial Human Rights Center reported today.
Most of the convicts are serving their sentences in IK-2 in Chernokozovo in Chechnya. One was transferred to another region of Russia. It was not possible to find out which one exactly. Relatives refused to communicate with human rights activists, fearing to worsen the situation of their relatives, the report stated.
On his Instagram account, which has 60,000 subscribers, Salamov, after a long break, resumed publishing on December 8, publishing a video from a training session.
"Training camp. The beginning of the journey," he wrote, tagging the post with the tag Akhmat. All of the following publications are also dedicated to training. “It’s a long break, but very soon I will return to the professional ring and make a splash,” Salamov said on December 14. On December 25, under a new video from training, he promised a quick fight. “Back in action, expect a big fight soon,” Salamov wrote.
Ramzan Kadyrov mentioned Salamov at least twice in his Telegram channel. So, on December 1, 2018, he, commenting on the boxer’s victory in a fight with Emanuel Annima, during which Salamov defended his titles according to the WBO INTERNATIONAL and EBP (Eurasian Boxing Parliament), Kadyrov noted that Salamov “once again proved that he is one of the experienced and undefeated in their weight category."
Earlier, on July 1, 2017, Kadyrov was indignant that boxers Umar Salamov and Vitaly Bigdash, as well as Brazilian fighter Fabricio Werdum, “gave up their titles by decision of the judges.”
The "Caucasian Knot" wrote that in December 2021, Umar Salamov lost the fight for the World Boxing Association (WBA) world title, losing to Dmitry Bivol. Bivol called Salamov one of the most difficult opponents.
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