Earlier this year, 20-year-old Salekh Magamadov and 18-year-old Ismail Isayev were handed over to the Chechen authorities and detained.
Both have been imprisoned in the Chechen Republic, as accused of aiding an illegal armed group under Part 2 of Article 208 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
The pair previously fled persecution and torture in Chechnya and taught refuge in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod. Last June, both Magamadov and Isayev were forced to leave Chechnya after being tortured by Chechen special police for running an opposition Telegram messaging channel.
The police made the men publicly apologise in a recorded video. On March 17 the mother of Isayev, Zara Magamadova, recorded a public appeal to the Human