Chechen security officials bought a plane ticket from Moscow to Grozny to 19-year-old Chechen woman Selima Ismailova, who ran away from home because of violence and threats from her father. This was reported by Ismailova's lawyer Anastasia Tyunyaeva, she is quoted by Ksenia Sobchak's Telegram channel "Bloody Lady".
According to the channel, the security forces came to Moscow from Grozny to bring Ismailova back. Tyunyaeva's lawyer suggested that yesterday the girl was not taken out so as not to attract too much attention:
“Perhaps it was such a cunning plan to make us relax, but in the end everything was done quite cynically. We are now calling the prosecutor's office, trying to appeal this somehow, but there is little hope. They have a ticket for 10 am.”
Also, the Caution, News channel published an audio message recorded by Ismailova's father. On the recording, you can hear how a man threatens his daughter that he will break her limbs and "take revenge twenty times":
“I will break all your limbs, including your legs, and you know very well that I will do it.”
In the message, he also promises to deprive his daughter of freedom, education and says that she can repeat the fate of her mother. Which one exactly is not specified.
The day before, Ismailova was detained at Moscow's Vnukovo airport, allegedly on charges of theft. She was going to fly from Russia to Germany. Then she was taken from the temporary detention center of the Vnukovo airport police department to the hospital with suspected appendicitis. The suspicion was not confirmed, and the girl was returned to the isolation ward. Now she is accompanied by two lawyers from the Center for Victims of Domestic Violence.
Ismailova was born in Chechnya, at the age of 12 she and her family moved to Germany. All this time, the girl repeatedly complained about domestic violence and appealed to the Youth Affairs Department, but later retracted her words under pressure. In 2021, the family returned to Chechnya, the father continued to beat his daughter, human rights activists report. On March 5, Selima left Chechnya with the help of the Marem human rights group.
In November 2022, 15 teenagers were detained in Makhachkala to be questioned about the escape from Russia of four sisters from Dagestan who were subjected to domestic violence. The girls were detained at the end of October at the Upper Lars checkpoint, Khadizhat and Patimat Khizriev, Aminat Gazimagomedova and Patimat Magomedova tried to run away from home due to family violence and tried to get to Georgia. Their relatives arrived at the checkpoint, but the girls begged not to extradite them and said that otherwise they would kill themselves. As reported by the SOS crisis group, the sisters were subjected to female circumcision as children. As a result, all four were able to leave Russia after the help of human rights activists and publicity of the story in the media.
