Human rights group SK SOS, which helps North Caucasus residents trying to leave their homes due to violence, has called for Russian opposition platform member Ruslan Kutayev to be removed from PACE after he actually justified “honour killings” in Chechnya. Doozd reports this.
On air on The Breakfast Show YouTube channel, Kutayev, when asked whether a family in Chechnya has the right to kill one of its members out of “disgrace,” responded with a counter-question: “Does a family member have the right to disgrace this family?”
solution [что делать] Hosted exclusively by family. Neither Kadyrov, Zakayev, nor Putin influence the decision-making process. Whatever they do: kill, return home, expel, arrange a wedding – all this is decided by the family.
Kutayev also noted that he considers representatives of the LGBTQ community in Chechnya to be “deviant and perverted.”
The SK SOS group announced that it would send an official letter to the PACE office and the head of the organization demanding an evaluation of Kutayev’s statements.
The Platform of Russian Democratic Forces was created within the framework of PACE for the purpose of dialogue with European parliamentarians in order to “represent the interests of anti-war Russians.” I started working at the end of January.
In total, the platform consists of 15 people. Ruslan Kutaev is one of five participants representing Russia’s indigenous peoples on the platform. He is the Chairman of the General Organization “Council of Peoples of the Caucasus”; In the 1990s, Kutayev was deputy prime minister of the self-declared Republic of Ichkeria.