Holed up inside a Moscow police station, Liya Zaurbekova realised that livestreaming an attempted abduction by her family might be the only path to staying alive. I did not want to disappear in silence,” Zaurbekova recalled, in her first interview since she escaped Russia. Separately, there have been accounts of gay Chechen women abducted, drugged and imprisoned in “conversion clinics”. “Hundreds of women in Chechnya are desperate to escape domestic violence,” said a Russian volunteer assisting Chechen women in fleeing the region. Just recently, Aminat Albukaeva, a prominent Chechen boxer living in Switzerland, was beaten by five men she identified as Chechens.

Source: The Guardian June 11, 2024 23:21 UTC