An activist who picketed in assistance of her missing Chechen friend has vanished after being detained by police in St.
Petersburg, the human rights group NC SOS stated Thursday.Lena Patyayeva staged a demonstration on Wednesday, criticizing what she referred to as authorities sluggish examination into the disappearance of Seda Suleimanova.
Patyayeva befriended Suleimanova while the young woman was leaving her conservative Chechen family.Police detained Patyayeva on the Akhmat Kadyrov Bridge in southwestern St.
Petersburg, pointing out declared infractions of Covid limitations.
She was later charged with organizing mass demonstrations, an administrative offense.NC SOS stated legal representatives were denied access to Patyayeva at two police headquarters where she was believed to be held.
A court set up to hear her case declared it had no record of her whereabouts.Patyayeva has actually been actively searching for Suleimanova, whom some worry may have been killed in a so-called honor killing a practice in which a female is murdered by a relative, usually a male, for allegedly bringing pity to her family.Suleimanova fled Chechnya in October 2022 after relatives threatened to eliminate her for declining an organized marriage.In August 2023, Russian law enforcement officer and unknown Chechen males abducted Suleimanova from her St.
Petersburg home, where she had been dealing with her ethnic Russian future husband.
NC SOS said authorities later on claimed she had returned to Chechnya voluntarily.She has actually not been spoken with given that.
The last known picture of her using a long gown and headscarf was published by Chechnyas human rights commissioner days after her forced return.NC SOS said federal private investigators launched a criminal probe into Suleimanovas disappearance in April 2024.
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