The powerful in Russia are able to deprive people of freedoms and threaten others with impunity. This is exactly the case with a Russian lawmaker who is threatening the family of a Chechen activists. From Moscow Times. Here is an excerpt:

A Russian lawmaker on Tuesday threatened to decapitate the family members of Chechen lawyer and anti-torture activist Abubakar Yangulbaev.

Yangulbaev’s father — a retired federal judge — and sister fled Russia on Jan. 23 after the activist’s mother Zarema Musaeva was violently detained in western Russia and forcibly brought to Chechnya. 

“We will pursue you until we cut off your heads and kill you,” Adam Delimkhanov, a ruling party deputy in Russia’s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, said in an Instagram video.

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