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| Investigation into the disappearance of Seda Suleymanova has begun |
| 2024-04-04 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] The investigator, in responses to the authors of appeals demanding to investigate the disappearance of a native of Chechnya, Seda Suleymanova, informed about the beginning of a criminal investigation, reported the CK SOS Crisis Group. As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, on August 23, 2023, security forces came to 26-year-old Seda Suleymanova and her fiance, who fled from Chechnya to St. Petersburg, and detained them, explaining that the girl was suspected of stealing jewelry. Later, the young man was released, and the girl was sent to Grozny, where she was handed over to relatives. The lawyers were not allowed to meet with the client, citing her refusal of their services. Seda’s friend Lena Patyaeva held protests in February and March, reminding that nothing has been known about Suleymanova’s fate for more than six months. On March 20, human rights activists reported that none of the federal departments, to which numerous statements were sent about the fate of Seda Suleymanova, who was taken by her relatives to Chechnya, checked the information about the possible murder of the girl. More than 2 thousand appeals were forwarded to the Chechen security forces, who organized the detention of Seda in St. Petersburg. Seda Suleymanova turned to human rights activists back in October 2022 because she was afraid that her family might commit an “honor killing,” since her relatives from Grozny were not satisfied with her lack of religiosity. In January 2023, Seda found a job and decided to stay in St. Petersburg. In February of the same year, her relatives already tried to kidnap her, but she managed to escape. After this, Seda changed her job and residence address, but remained in St. Petersburg, where she was detained in August. The prosecutor's office, in response to a statement by human rights activists, stated in February that the girl voluntarily left for Chechnya, although two sources in Chechnya voiced the version that Suleymanova was killed by relatives. The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case in connection with the disappearance of Seda Suleymanova, the SOS Crisis Group reported today. According to human rights activists, applicants who sent requests through a special form began to receive responses from the Investigative Committee about the initiation of a criminal case into the “unknown disappearance” of Seda. Before this, they only received replies from the prosecutor’s office, which stated that the applicant did not have the right to request such information or that the appeal had been transferred to the Investigative Committee. “The progress and results of the investigation of the criminal case have been taken under control by the Investigation Department,” the Investigative Committee stated in its responses. Human rights activists expressed gratitude to everyone who is demanding an investigation into what happened to Seda Suleymanova. “Any progress that occurs in this matter is thanks to you,” says the Telegram channel of the Crisis Group*. “Everything you did - signed appeals, spread information about Seda’s disappearance - is not meaningless. It brings results. We must not give up, we have no right to give up. For the sake of Seda and other girls and women suffering from domestic violence, sent to hands to the aggressors with the consent of the state,” the human rights project “Marem” commented on the message on its Telegram channel. On October 20, 2023, Suleymanova’s fiance Stanislav Kudryavtsev announced that he had converted to Islam and asked to meet with her, but did not receive a response from the girl’s relatives. Kudryavtsev witnessed Seda’s detention: security forces detained him outside the apartment and placed him in front of the peephole so that the girl would open the apartment door. “When Seda opened the door, they immediately burst in. She fell to the floor, was shaking in shock, crying, saying that they would kill her at home. She called it an “honor killing,” he told human rights activists. Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: pg_query(): Argument #1 ($connection) must be of type PgSql\Connection, string given in /var/www/html/rantburg/ajax/refs.php:29 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/html/rantburg/ajax/refs.php(29): pg_query() #1 {main} thrown in /var/www/html/rantburg/ajax/refs.php on line 29 Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: pg_query(): Argument #1 ($connection) must be of type PgSql\Connection, string given in /var/www/html/rantburg/ajax/refs.php:29 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/html/rantburg/ajax/refs.php(29): pg_query() #1 {main} thrown in /var/www/html/rantburg/ajax/refs.php on line 29 Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: pg_query(): Argument #1 ($connection) must be of type PgSql\Connection, string given in /var/www/html/rantburg/ajax/refs.php:29 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/html/rantburg/ajax/refs.php(29): pg_query() #1 {main} thrown in /var/www/html/rantburg/ajax/refs.php on line 29 |
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