Dzhumaev released from prison

A native of Chechnya, Said-Muhammad Djumaev, served his full sentence in a case involving an attack on a security officer and was released from a penal colony in the Tambov region.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel" reported, on January 31, 2023, it became known that Said-Muhammad Djumaev was transferred to a punishment cell (SHIZO). His relatives expressed the opinion that the colony employees applied this measure to Djumaev specifically in order to disrupt a meeting with his mother. In February of the same year, Djumaev was again placed in a punishment cell. After that, the disciplinary commission decided to transfer Djumaev to strict conditions of detention (SUS), which excludes the possibility of parole, the relatives of the convicted person reported. On March 10, 2024, human rights activists reported that Dzhumayev’s conditions in the colony have been tightened and he has been transferred to a single cell-type facility (SCF). A source close to the convict’s family reported that the relatives do not want to appeal the transfer to a single cell-type facility or seek parole, as they are sure that this is futile.

Political prisoner Said-Muhammad Djumaev was released from a penal colony in the Tambov Region. Said-Muhammad was met by 20 relatives upon leaving the colony. His mother, seeing her freed son, rushed to hug him tightly, RusNews reported today.

Djumaev thanked everyone who wrote to him for their support and confirmed that it is important to write letters to political prisoners: “Thank you to everyone who supported and wrote! All this helped me!”

Recall that the court found Djumaev guilty of confronting security forces at a rally in support of Alexei Navalny on January 23, 2021. According to the prosecution, Dzhumayev struck two riot police officers and a police officer multiple times.

After the incident, a video was published on social media showing a young Chechen beating and kicking security forces, who fight back with batons, after which the young man manages to escape. Kadyrov's adviser Adam Delimkhanov called on Dzhumayev to surrender and renounce the opposition, promising in return that the head of Chechnya would help him resolve his problems with the law.

Ramzan Kadyrov On February 2, 2021, he lashed out at Dzhumayev with harsh criticism, saying that he had harmed the people of Chechnya and had acted unmanly by hiding from security forces after the incident. The Chechen authorities are trying to discredit Djumaev because he did not make a deal with them, lawyer Zaurbek Sadakhanov said at the time.

You can read more about the Djumaev case in the "Caucasian Knot" report "The Djumaev Case: Between Kadyrov and Navalny".

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