Representatives of the Keloy teip, to which the family of the former Chechen judge Saydi Yangulbaev belongs, abandoned them and cursed them.
Video with speeches of relatives published channel ChGTRK “Grozny”. Members of the teip also threatened members of the Yangulbaev family with murder.
“We declare that they are not part of us. If until now they were our last name, now we will take revenge, we do not refuse to kill them. If we overtake them, we will shoot. I never thought that this would overtake me. He [Сайди] was the eldest in our family, he was supposed to replace our father, but it is because of him that we are in this situation today. Today, I would give a lot not to say this,” says Saidi Yangulbaev’s brother, who has not been named. Translation of his speech leads Kavkaz.Realii publication*.
The man also asked for forgiveness from the entire Chechen people and from the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov. According to him, the teip is disgraced by the actions of the family in front of the entire republic and all the Chechen people due to the fact that “these scoundrels are damned.”
Another brother, who introduced himself as Saydi-Amin, promised that if he caught up with his nephew Ibragim Yangulbaev before the others, he would personally kill him. “And I will do everything to overtake him earlier. But if you get ahead of me, I forgive you his blood. I break with them,” said the man.
On January 20, armed Chechen security forces detained the mother of human rights activist Abubakar Yangulbaev and the wife of federal judge Saydi Yangulbaev, Zarema Musaeva, in Nizhny Novgorod. Ramzan Kadyrov called the Yangulbayev family “accomplices of terrorists”, adding that “this family is waiting for a place either in prison or underground”, and also threatened the judge’s relatives with “destruction”. The Kremlin called Kadyrov’s words “personal opinion.”
After that, State Duma deputy from Chechnya Adam Delimkhanov vowed to cut off the heads of members of the family of Judge Saidi Yangulbaev. Threats also came against those who dare to translate Delimkhanov’s words from Chechen into Russian.
Following Delimkhanov, judge Yangulbaev and other Chechen politicians and security officials promised to “find and cut off the heads” of family members. Among them are First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Aslan Iraskhanov, Head of the Russian Guard Department for Chechnya Sharip Delimkhanov, Acting Head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for Chechnya Alikhan Tsakaev, First Deputy Chairman of the Chechen government Isa Tumkhadzhiev, Head of the Grozny Department of Internal Affairs Deni Aidamirov. Kadyrov’s supporters also demanded that “enemy media” be shut down.
On February 2, an unsanctioned rally against the Yangulbaev family was held in Grozny, which brought together about 400,000 people, including state employees, students, and the religious and political elite of Chechnya. The rally was held in the conditions of coronavirus restrictions, when mass events are prohibited.
The Chechen Rospotrebnadzor could not find the organizers of the “spontaneous” people’s gathering. Although the meeting was attended by the Chairman of the Public Chamber of Chechnya Ismail Denilkhanov, the head of the republican government Magomed Daudov, the Minister for National Policy Akhmed Dudayev, the chairman of the Council of Alims of the North Caucasus Federal District Khozh-Akhmed Kadyrov, Mufti Salakh-Khadzhi Mezhiev.