Nearly 80-year-old Said Amin Ibragimov is among more than 60 fighters for Chechen independence who will not be allowed into the Sejm today for a conference marking the 30th anniversary of the death of Dzhokhar Dudayev. Ibragimov was persecuted by the services of Vladimir Putin, which organized several assassination attempts against him. Now he is barred from entering the parliament headed by Włodzimierz Czarzasty.
As reported by Niezalezna, a conference is scheduled to take place in the Sejm on Thursday to mark the 30th anniversary of Dzhokhar Dudayev’s death. On this occasion, Chechen fighters for the region’s independence were expected to arrive at the Polish parliament. Among them are those who had to flee their homeland due to Russian aggression and persecution.
However, most of them were denied permission to enter the Sejm. Among them is today’s nearly 80-year-old Said Amin Ibragimov, a leading member of the Chechen separatist movement.
Adam Borowski recalled on TV Republika that Ibragimov has lived for years in France, in Strasbourg. Despite fleeing to a European country, several assassination attempts were carried out against him, most of which are attributed to Russian services.
Assassination attempts on his life
Said Amin Ibragimov is a human rights defender against whom Russia organized four assassination attempts, all of which he survived.
“He was attacked by Russian agents while fishing. He was beaten and tortured – his body was burned with cigarettes, then he was thrown into a pit and covered with earth. Fortunately, he managed to dig himself out and was rescued,” Borowski said on Michał Rachoń program.
Media reported on the case in 2015, stating that Ibragimov arrived in France in the early 2000s. Until he was officially granted asylum, he remained under constant threat. He survived several assassination attempts in his new home, as well as a knife attack during a trip to Istanbul.
Brutal torture
In August 2014, the incident recalled by Borowski took place. Then 68-year-old Chechen, while relaxing at his suburban house, went to the river to fish. Suddenly he heard a noise – several men appeared behind him, one of whom struck him on the head so hard that he lost consciousness.
When he regained consciousness, he found himself on a boat on the river with his captors. “They were polite and said we should come to an agreement,” Ibragimov recalled. However, he replied that he would not make any deals with bandits. He was then struck again.
“When we were in the forest, they began to torture me, burning me with a heated iron and crushing my fingers. The pain was terrible. They drove sharp objects into my legs and burned me with cigarettes,” he recounted in an interview with the media.
This lasted for more than two days. After that time, they left him at night, half-dead, in a ditch in the forest. His clothes were covered in blood. The next day, he was awakened by falling rain. Ibragimov was taken to hospital, where numerous burns and cut wounds were treated.
Putin’s revenge
“I am more than certain they were FSB agents. There is no other explanation,” he stated. He remembered that the men spoke with a clear Russian accent.
In his view, the motive for the retaliation by Vladimir Putin’s people was a motion he had filed a few weeks earlier with the International Criminal Court in The Hague to initiate criminal proceedings against President Putin and other Russian officials for alleged war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide against the Chechen people committed during the two wars with Russian armed forces in the 1990s.
