Isabella Evloeva, a reporter with Fortanga, an independent news outlet active in Russia's North Caucasus region of Ingushetia, says that her father-in-law was taken in for questioning by police during a funeral of his relative, she wrote on her Telegram channel.
“It seems that the law enforcement is really having a go at my family. Yesterday, my elderly father-in-law was taken in for questioning to the Investigative Committee right from the funeral of his sister. He was questioned about his son, that is, my husband: where he is, what he is doing, what was his role in the 2018-2019 protests and so on,” she said.
According to the reporter, two weeks before that, the police posed the same questions to her husband’s cousin.
“My husband is a protest activist in Ingushetia. Many people served time in relation to this case, many are still in prison. But come on, it’s been nearly four years, they might as well have waited another four. The government uses protest attendance as a leverage they can use at any time to punish those they consider undesirable and their relatives,” Evloeva said.