On January 24, at 7:00 AM, Swedish police arrested Emilkhan Sadayev, a Chechen refugee living in Sweden. At the moment, he is held in a deportation prison in the town of Flen.
Emilkhan Sadayev participated in military operations against Russian occupation forces between 1999 and 2004.
As a result, he was seriously wounded in 2004 and was forced to leave Chechnya with his family.
Sadayev stayed for some time in Azerbaijan, but after Russia tried to arrest him with the help of local authorities, he was had to move to Turkey and later to Sweden.
He has been waiting for more than two years for a decision regarding his status in Sweden. However, on January 24, was suddenly arrested.
It is worth mentioning in this connection, that his two brother - Musa and Zelimkhan - were killed in Chechnya by Russian invaders. Their house in the village of Starye Atagi has been blown up by the Russians.
For many years, Russia pursued Emilkhan Sadayev for his participation in military operations against the Russian occupation troops.
He used documents of another person to enter Sweden, and it became the main formal reason for his detention.
However, Emilkhan Sadayev could not travel under his own name, because he had no documents, and he couldn't get them because Russian security services were after him.
The threat of deportation of Emilkhan Sadayev to Russia means only that he faces death as a result of severe tortures, as happened with other Chechens deported to Russia from some European countries. And it happened to his brothers who were killed by the Russians to revenge his participation in military operations against the invaders.
The current actions of the Swedish authorities raise a number of questions.
After entering Sweden, Emilkhan Sadayev admitted that he used documents of another person. And, for more than 2 years, it did not bother the Swedish authorities.
What has changed now?
If they want to deport him as a participant of the war, then Sweden will have to deport tens if not hundreds of Chechens who were granted the refugee status in the country.
Meanwhile, representatives of the Chechen diaspora in Sweden are going to hold a protest in Flen on January 27 to prevent the deportation of Emilkhan Sadayev for death in Russia.
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