Minkail Malizayev

Affiliated media: Blogger

Incident date: December 23, 2021

Attack type:

• Pressure on a media worker via physical pressure on relatives and loved ones

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Caucasus.Realities

Location: Russia, Chechen Republic, Chechen Republic

Additional information:

Minkail Malizayev, a Chechen opposition blogger living in Germany, said that «all his relatives on both his father’s and mother’s side» had been kidnapped in Chechnya. According to the blogger, they are being «tortured, beaten, raped and abused». Malizayev received several photos of his naked female relatives.