INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Petersburg woman was sentenced to 20 hours of community service on Friday after staging a protest over alleged inaction by law enforcement
Petersburg on Wednesday, citing alleged violations of Covid-19 restrictions.The human rights group NC SOS said Patyayeva was denied access
to her lawyer for at least 48 hours after her arrest
She was found guilty of holding an unauthorized protest and ordered to perform 20 hours of community service, the group said.Patyayeva was
Chechnya in October 2022 after relatives threatened to kill her for refusing an arranged marriage.In August 2023, Russian police officers
and unidentified Chechen men abducted Suleimanova from her St
Petersburg apartment, where she had been living with her ethnic Russian fiance
murdered by a relative, typically a man, for allegedly bringing shame to her family.Patyayeva said her protest and sentencing helped raise
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