GROZNY. June 30 (Interfax-AVN) - Maksud Abdullayev, a student of the Al-Azhar University, deported from Egypt, is feeling well and he is in Chechnya.
The local public television channel Grozny aired a program, Tochki Opory (The Bearing Points) on Tuesday, in which Abdullayev spoke live.
"I spent the night at the Domodedovo airport after arrival, and I flew to Grozny on the second day to meet my relatives, and to see how the Chechen Republic was doing. I had not been to Chechnya in the last ten years," Abdullayev said.
Asked by the anchor how much truth there was in the reports that he had been forcibly removed from the airport, so pressure could be put through him on Supyan Abdullayev, the right-hand man to Chechen militant leader Doku Umarov, Abdullayev said," "I have been in Grozny for a week now, and no one has detained me, or put pressure on me."
"I am free to travel where I want to, I see people I want to see, and no one has committed violence against me. All that was not true," he said.
Human rights groups sent inquiries to the Russian law enforcement agencies, asking for the whereabouts of student Maksud Abdullayev, Chechen warlord Supyan Abdullayev's son, deported from Egypt to Russia, earlier reports said.
Amnesty International claimed that following his arrival at a Moscow airport Abdullayev was detained by plain clothed men and taken away for questioning, and that his whereabouts had not been known since then. The human rights organization also claimed that Abdullayev could have been detained by special services in order to put pressure on his father.
A statement by the Russian human rights center Memorial claimed, "There are reasons to suspect that Abdullayev was detained as the son of Supyan Abdullayev, deputy head of the militant leader Doku Umarov."
Meanwhile, Abdullayev said the following, addressing militants through Channel Grozny: "Think what membership in criminal armed groups can lead to. The end will be dismal. Talk to the clergy. Do not blindly follow the militants and those who are driving you to an abyss."
Abdullayev urged all those "in the woods" to end the bloodshed and crime, and to return to a peaceful life.
"This has been going on for ten years now. There has been incessant bloodshed. A handful of people, who remain in the mountains, in the woods, now claim they are carrying on the Jihad. This is not Jihad. What Jihad can one talk about, if no one is trying to stop us from praying, if there are many mosques in the republic and if we live as our customs and traditions tell us to," he said.
Asked what he would do, if his father ordered him to go into the woods, Abdullayev said, "I am 22 years old. In accordance with our religion I have the right to decide my future on my own. Even if I am ordered, I will never go into the woods. If I had wanted to do so, I would have been there a long time ago. But I left Chechnya when I was 12 and I had never arrived here since then."
"If the Arabs, now in the woods, cannot carry on without fighting, let them go home and accomplish their 'feats' there," he said.
"No Arabs must come here and teach us. Concerning religion, we have brilliantly trained specialists who can teach religion in strict accordance with the Koran," Abdullayev said.