14 June 2021, 17:14
Social network users condemn law enforcer for disclosing Taramova's shelter
Three video clips have been posted on the Instagram of the "Marem" project, which allegedly show the man who took testimony from Khalimat Taramova shortly before her detention and extradition to Chechnya. It was he who had informed Chechen law enforcers about the girl's whereabouts at the Makhachkala shelter, social network users have suggested.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on June 10, Dagestani law enforcers and their colleagues from Chechnya entered the apartment for domestic violence victims, and detained employees of the "Marem" project and Khalimat Taramova, as well as a mother and her 15-year-old daughter, who were hiding from domestic violence there. According to journalist Svetlana Anokhina, Taramova's father also came to the shelter, but she refused to go with him; and then she and her girl friend were persuaded to get into a car, which promised to take them to some safe place. However, in the end, both girls were brought to the building of the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), where Taramova was handed over to her relatives.
Khalimat Taramova is a daughter of Ramzan Kadyrov's close associate; she fled because of domestic violence due to her sexual orientation, the Russian LGBT Network* has informed. Human rights activists fear that the girl will be killed in Chechnya. An activist of the "Legal Initiative"* has noted that after Taramova had been handed over to her relatives in Chechnya, there is no contact with her. The intervention of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) can save the girl, the Russian LGBT Network* believes.
This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on June 14, 2021 at 00:57 am MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.
Source: CK correspondent
