Law, Power, and Justice

“People are afraid to go out to protest.
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Suleymanova co-organized an all-women rally near the Russian Embassy in Belgium to spotlight Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov’s “fight against defenseless women” as well as the many cases of women kidnapped or imprisoned in the North Caucasus republic. 

The protest’s organizers say their primary motivation behind the protest was fresh criminal charges against Zarema Musaeva, the imprisoned mother of prominent Kadyrov critics. 

Musaeva, the mother of activists Abubakar, Baysangur and Ibragim Yangulbaev, was violently detained in the western Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod and forcibly taken to Chechnya in January 2022.

She was subsequently sentenced to five years in prison on charges of fraud and assault on a police officer — accusations she strongly denied.