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| Human rights activists reports the kidnapping of a Krasnodar resident from a shelter |
| 2024-05-10 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] A resident of Krasnodar, who complained about violence in the family of a native of Chechnya, stopped communicating after her husband and accomplices kidnapped her from the shelter, human rights activists reported. 33-year-old Krasnodar resident Maria Smelaya was in a shelter for women victims of domestic violence. Previously, she appealed to human rights activists with a request to protect her from her husband, who, according to her, systematically beat her, took her to the forest and threatened her with violence when she was pregnant with their son, reports the human rights project “Caucasus Without a Mother”. “Violence on the part of the husband began soon after their trip to see her husband’s relatives in Grozny and marriage. Brave told human rights activists that he began to drink regularly and “engage in extortion,” says a publication on the project’s telegram channel. The human rights project “Motherless Caucasus” is positioned as “research and educational”; its participants provide consulting, legal and psychological assistance to victims, as well as help with evacuation and highlight cases of rights violations, according to a self-presentation on the project’s website. “We are a group of like-minded people, and we are researching the practices of illegal removal of children from mothers in the Caucasus, covering and sharing information whenever possible,” it notes. On May 7, employees of the “Motherless Caucasus” project helped place the victim in a safe place “outside the Krasnodar Territory.” However, on the night of May 9, Maria’s husband “together with his accomplices broke into the apartment where the woman and the child were and took her back to the Krasnodar Territory.” “Now Maria is not in touch. In a telephone conversation with an employee of the center after the abduction, [Maria’s husband] threatened her with rape, he also allowed human rights activists to briefly hear the abducted woman. Human rights activists were never able to communicate with her,” says the publication posted on Telegram -project channel at 17.33 Moscow time. As of 20.00 Moscow time, there are no more recent publications in the telegram channel. As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, the problem of the safety of shelters remains unresolved, especially in the North Caucasus, representatives of non-governmental organizations said in September 2023. The statement was preceded by a decision of the ECHR, which recognized violations of the rights of women who were in the Makhachkala shelter when security forces took from it a native of Chechnya, Khalimat Taramova. On June 10, 2021, in Dagestan, security forces and their colleagues from Chechnya came to a shelter apartment for victims of domestic violence in Makhachkala, detaining journalist Svetlana Anokhina, employees of the Marem project and the mother of a 15-year-old daughter who was hiding from domestic violence. Their goal was to remove from the shelter a resident of Chechnya, Khalimat Taramova, who fled the republic after complaining of domestic violence. Various injuries, some from blows with a blunt object, were recorded on the bodies of Iraida Smirnova, Maysarat Kilyaskhanova and Svetlana Anokhina, who were then in the shelter. |
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