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| Chechen women hold a picket in Brussels in solidarity with victims of repression | |
| 2024-12-08 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] Six activists representing various public organizations of Chechens in Europe held a picket of solidarity with women victims of repression in Chechnya. The picket took place outside the Russian consulate in Brussels without any reaction from the diplomatic agency, reports a correspondent for the "Caucasian Knot". As those gathered told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, the purpose of the picket was to protest against the repressions carried out against Chechen women. One of the organizers of the picket was the "United Force" movement, which recalled the role of Chechen women in the national liberation struggle of Chechens in the past. "The role of Chechen women in the national liberation struggle of the Chechen people is not only significant, but also decisive. We remember how they took on the economic burden of wartime, how they risked their lives [...]," said the announcement of the event, distributed the day before on Chechen media platforms of opponents of the republican authorities. Those gathered at the Russian consulate in Brussels openly spoke about the abductions, persecution and pressure to which mothers, wives and sisters of the regime's opponents are subjected. In their hands they held printed portraits of Zarema Musayeva, Amina Okuyeva, Natalya Estemirova, Binazira Khamidova. Zarema Musayeva is the wife of former federal judge Saidi Yangulbaev. Chechen security forces took her away from her apartment in Nizhny Novgorod on January 20, 2022. After that, the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov accused the Yangulbaev family of organizing a terrorist network and said that a place "in prison or underground" awaited them. The car in which Adam Osmaev and his wife Amina Okueva were traveling was fired upon near the village of Glevakha near Kiev on October 30, 2017. Okueva died on the spot, and Osmaev was wounded. On January 12, 2021, Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov announced that the police had detained members of a criminal group, one of whose members is suspected of organizing an assassination attempt on Osmaev and the murder of his wife Okueva. Igor Redkin, a native of Kaspiysk, was arrested for two months until March 11. In February of the same year, Redkin was released under house arrest. In December 2023, it became clear that Redkin had left for Hungary. Natalya Estemirova was kidnapped on July 15, 2009, taken to Ingushetia and killed. Based on her information about human rights violations in Chechnya, human rights activists made inquiries to official bodies and compiled lists of missing persons. You can learn about the investigation and the main versions of the murder of the human rights activist from the "Caucasian Knot" report " The Murder of Natalya Estemirova ". "We have gathered here to protest against the Kadyrov regime, against the crimes against Chechen women. I want to clarify that the Kadyrov regime is not a Chechen regime, but a Russian one, and has nothing in common with Chechen culture," Fatima Suleimanova, a representative of the United Force movement, told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. The action is an expression of solidarity, not a demand on the Russian embassy, ​​the event's co-organizer, an activist named Safiya, told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. "We have no demands on the embassy, ​​there is no point in talking to them. We want to show solidarity with Chechen women, to show that we are with them. First of all, this concerns Zarema Musayeva, as well as the stories when Mufti Salah Mezhiyev removed niqabs from girls.
She noted that the case of Zarema Musayeva "only strengthened the feeling in Chechen society that Kadyrov is only capable of fighting women." Those gathered also outlined a number of other problems of the diaspora related to the provision of asylum to agents of the regime and the deportation of political refugees. "The most people gather for rallies against extraditions. And often it is possible to prevent extradition. For example, Amina Gerikhanova," said Safiya, identifying this problem as "one of the key ones" in the diaspora. On November 4, it became known that Chechen native Amina Gerikhanova, who was wanted by Russia as a participant in the fighting in Syria, received refugee status in Romania. Gerikhanova was removed from the Interpol wanted list, the human rights association "Vaifond" reported on November 30. She also spoke about the problem of legalization in Europe and obtaining refugee status by Kadyrov's agents or retired Kadyrovites who have no real problems in Russia and, in all likelihood, are being introduced into the ranks of political emigrants as agents. "This problem exists. Kadyrov sends many here and keeps them on his payroll," the girl said. Not all of the girls who gathered were ready to speak publicly, citing concerns about their relatives back home. Representatives of the Russian diplomatic department showed no interest in the picket at the embassy walls. The establishment was guarded by local police, who fenced off the protesters from the Russian mission with a metal fence. | |
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