It is still unclear where the 19-year-old resident of Chechnya Yasin Khalidov, who was detained while crossing the Russian-Kazakh border, is located. Novaya Gazeta received confirmation of his detention at the Isilkul border checkpoint in the Omsk region from an officer of the Isilkul police who questioned the detainee Khalidov, and then took him and handed him over to the officers of the Omsk Interior Ministry’s Center for Emergency Control. This officer said that during the passage of control, Khalidov was stopped by border guards on the basis of a search warrant, which was established on the initiative of officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the city of Shali, Chechen Republic. After the arrest of Khalidov, the initiators of his search (the Shali Department of Internal Affairs) were contacted, Khalidov himself was interrogated and detained until his arrival in Omsk and until the arrival of the Shali police officers.
Yasin Khalidov. Photo: social networks
According to an Isilkul policeman who commented on the situation to a Novaya Gazeta journalist, Yasin Khalidov’s transfer to the Chechen Republic was supposed to take place last Sunday or Monday.
On Wednesday, May 24, Khalidov’s lawyers Alexander Nemov and Alexander Karavaev arrived in Chechnya. However, they were unable to meet their client, because the Chechen Interior Ministry did not provide them with information about his whereabouts; no criminal case has been initiated against him, and he is not wanted as a suspect in a crime. Thus, it turns out that
unidentified officers of the Chechen police used the search system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation to locate and detain Yasin Khalidov without proper legal grounds, which can be qualified as abuse of power.
In addition, it turns out that the border guards of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation and the police officers of Isilkul and Omsk were misled by their Chechen colleagues and violated the constitutional rights of Yasin Khalidov, detaining him on a wanted list placed in the federal base of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation by officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city of Shali without legal grounds.
On the fact of the kidnapping of Yasin Khalidov and his disappearance, as well as the impossibility of exercising his right to defend the client, lawyer Alexander Nemov filed complaints addressed to the Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Chechen Republic, the Prosecutor of the Chechen Republic and turned to the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation for Chechnya.
Recall that 19-year-old Yasin Khalidov was hired by the police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the city of Shali at the age of 17, without a high school diploma (at the time he started his work in the police, he was still at school). Formally, his official duties were to serve at the checkpoint of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the city of Shali, however, operational officers of the Criminal Investigation Department used the minor Khalidov for undercover and operational work.
On May 1 last year, at the age of 18, Khalidov, at the age of 18, joined the transport riot police (Rosgvardia) and, in this capacity, actively cooperated with employees of the Center for Emergency Control of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Chechen Republic, who specialized in uncovering the so-called sleeper cells of ISIS recognized as terrorist and banned in Russia as in Chechnya itself and in European diasporas. The main task of the “ISIS” unit of the CPE of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Chechen Republic was to search for young religious Chechens who showed interest in the subject of ISIS and, with competent indoctrination, could decide to attack police officers or participate in a terrorist act.
The “processing” of such Chechens took place under the control of the police, with the participation of residents of Chechnya, who were in the intelligence service of the employees of the CPE of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Chechen Republic, the communication itself took place through social networks.
On September 14, Yasin Khalidov, as part of his unit, was sent to Ukraine to participate in a special military operation.
The main task of the Chechen National Guard and the police was to perform the functions of the military police.
However, Khalidov’s unit had to take part directly in the hostilities. At the same time, according to Khalidov, his senior comrades used all their connections in the republic to evade participation in the battles.
Therefore, the list of Russian Guards assigned to the structures of the Ministry of Defense changed several times, and as a result, 18-year-old Khalidov ended up on it. As a result of the combat mission, Khalidov was wounded.
After returning from Ukraine, Khalidov turned to his superiors with a report on his dismissal, but he was detained, compensation for the injury (3 million rubles), according to him, was taken away, and they also threatened the guy with a criminal case on terrorism. Khalidov was miraculously able to escape and turned to the Chechen bloggers, the Yangulbaev brothers, who administer the popular Adat telegram channel, for help.
The Yangulbaevs position themselves, among other things, as human rights activists who provide assistance to Chechens who have problems with law enforcement agencies.
Khalidov asked the Yangulbayevs to help him with money (he didn’t even have money for food), as well as with leaving Russia for a safe country.
Yangulbaev brothers. Photo: SOTA
The Yangulbaevs demanded from him all the information about his service in the police and in the National Guard, including about his business trip to Ukraine. Khalidov gave them this information, but did not give permission for its publication and transfer to third parties. The Yangulbaevs, as follows from their own words, allegedly immediately leaked information on Ukraine to the Ukrainian special services and began to prepare a publication about how Chechen police officers “uncover” man-made, home-grown, in fact, “ISIS cells”.
The Yangulbaevs announced this publication on their channel, after which Khalidov’s relatives were detained in Chechnya.
Khalidov repeatedly asked the Yangulbaevs not to publish the information they had transmitted, and he also asked for minimal financial assistance. However, the Yangulbaevs did nothing to help him.
(Khalidov received 5,000 rubles from his relatives, to whom he promised to buy a ticket to Chechnya with this money, but instead left the Minvod for Moscow and then to the Omsk region). In the end, Khalidov asked the Yangulbaevs to put him in touch with the well-known Chechen blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov and a human rights organization that helps people from Chechnya in Europe, but the Yangulbaevs dissuaded him, saying that only Adat could help in such a situation. Bloggers kept the guy on the hook until they prepared the official information transmitted to them for publication. On April 2, an article appeared on the Adat channel, after which the administrators of Adat blocked Khalidov from contacting them.
