
Police threaten extremism charges against friend of Seda Suleymanova
Lena Patyaeva is currently serving a 10-day sentence for an alleged violation of the rules on holding a picket.

Lena Patyaeva is currently serving a 10-day sentence for an alleged violation of the rules on holding a picket.

Lena Patyaeva was detained after staging a solo picket outside a police station.

Aliya Ozdamirova, aged 33, reportedly fled home after being threatened by her family.

According to her relatives, they learned about what happened from social media.

Islam Musiev warned human rights activists that if he stopped contacting them, it meant he had been killed.

The actions were timed to coincide with International Women’ s Day.

Duma member Adam Delimkhanov has refused to intervene in an investigation into the disappearance of Seda Suleymanova, who is presumed to have been a victim of an ‘honour killing’. On Monday, NC SOS Crisis Group, a queer rights group operating in the North Caucasus, told OC Media that Delimkhanov refused to interfere in the investigation, saying that it ‘does not fall within the competence of a State Duma deputy who carries out his activities in strict compliance with the current legislation’.