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Chechen politician threatens to ‘rip heads off’ family of activist

Adam Delimkhanov, a member of the State Duma
Adam Delimkhanov, a member of the State Duma, issued the threat on an Instagram video. Photograph: Yelena Afonina/Tass

A Chechen politician has threatened to “rip the heads off” the family of an anti-torture activist whose mother was arrested and forcibly returned to the tightly controlled republic.

Zarema Musayeva, the mother of Abubakar Yangulbayev, an exiled former lawyer for the Committee Against Torture, was detained by Chechen forces in mid-January in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod.

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