Germany refuses to accept Chechen author
The German “Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge (BAMF)” , Germany’s federal agency for migration and refugees, refused to grant politcal asylum to the Chechen author, former secretary of social affairs and vice-premier of Chechnya’s Republic of “Itshkeria” Apti Bisultanov.
Bisultanov is accused of being co-responsible for the violation of human rights committed by troops of of his movement in the course of the war in Chechnya.
Bisultanov is in Germany on the basis of “medical treatment”, his application for political asylum is supported by people like Wolf Biermann (a chansonnier), Günther Grass (an author) and Wolfgang Thierse (a politician and former speaker of the German parliament.
Despite the rejected asylum Bisultanov may remain in Germany as no official request to extradite him was filed by the Russian authorities yet.
Source: “Russland Aktuell”
