Belarus extraditing Chechen-born MMA champion who revealed torture by Kadyrov’s police
Murad Amriyev, a Mixed Martial Arts fighter of Chechen origin, will be extradited to Russia by Friday morning at the latest.
The documents are being prepared for Amriyev’s extradition to Russia, Yury Pilkevich, a representative of the Homiel police, said.
Amriyev, a citizen of Russia, was detained by Belarusian border guards on June, 7.
On June 4, Amriyev was arrested on suspicion of using forged documents in Russia’s Bryansk. On June 6, he jumped out of the window of the building of the Transport Prosecutor’s office from which plaincloth secret agents reportedly tried to forcibly take him to Chechnya.
Forgery in Amriyev’s documents is said to be a mistake made by Chechen officials – his year of birth in the passport is listed as 1986 instead of 1985. But still, he iss on the federal wanted list.
In 2013, Amriyev told human rights defenders that he had been abducted, beaten and tortured with electricity by Kadyrov-controlled security forces. According to the athlete, a member of the Chechen republic top brass was among them. According to Russian human rights watchdog Memorial. Kadyrovites kidnapped Murad Amriyev to make his elder brother return to Chechnya from Germany. The above top police official allegedly vowed blood vengeance against him. After Murad Amriyev was releasedif released, he left Russia for Ukraine, where he kept his competitive career going and even became a world champion in MMA.
There is a strong presumption that Amriyev’s life will be in jeopardy in the event of his delivering to Chechnya.
In October 2016, an unknown man attacked a daughter of Fyodor Yemelyanenko, the president of Russia’s Mixed Martial Arts Association, who criticised Chechnya’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov for child-fighting in Chechnya.
