France Deports Chechen Refugee Who Fled Torture – Novaya Gazeta
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April 12, 2021
Magomed Gadayev was said to have cut open his own stomach at a deportation facility to protest his expulsion.
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France has deported a Chechen refugee who fled torture in his native region back to Russia, where rights advocates say he faces possible torture or death, the independent Novaya Gazeta newspaper reported over the weekend.
Magomed Gadayev, 37, is among dozens of ethnic Chechens whom France wants to expel for suspected extremism following the gruesome beheading of French teacher Samuel Paty by another Chechen national last fall.
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French police put Gadayev on a Friday flight to Moscow despite a court ruling that overturned his previous deportation order, according to Novaya Gazeta.