
Armenia deports Chechen who threatened to murder daughter
The deportation follows the high-profile murder of a Chechen woman in Yerevan.

The deportation follows the high-profile murder of a Chechen woman in Yerevan.

Aliya Ozdamirova was buried two days after her forced return to Chechnya in November 2025.

Investigators found no evidence of 21-year-old Aina Mankieva’s involvement in the alleged theft she was accused of by her mother

This is the first time any officials have announced details about the suspects in Chechen woman Aishat Baimuradova’s murder.

Alen Simonyan made the statement more than three months after Aishat Baimuradova’s body was found in Yerevan.

The human rights crisis group NC SOS said the man faced retaliation from relatives after his sexual orientation was revealed. The human rights crisis group NC SOS has reported that it has helped a young queer man from Chechnya leave Russia after, according to the organisation, he faced the threat of being killed by his relatives. The man’s name was not disclosed for security reasons. In its publication on Telegram, NC SOS claimed that the man came from an ‘influential family’ and that his sexu

Chechen woman Aishat Baimuradova was killed in Armenia in October 2025.