Runaway girl from Dagestan asks her relatives not to look for her in Georgia

Zaira Pirova, a resident of Dagestan, left for Georgia because of being forced to marriage and pressure in the family. However, her relatives are trying to find her. The girl claimed that she was in danger in the family.

Zaira Pirova left home in September 2024. The law enforcement bodies provided her family with information that she stayed in Georgia, the “SK SOS Crisis Group”* reports.

At home, the girl was strictly limited by her relatives. After finishing school, she managed to get enrolled in a university in Vladikavkaz, where she could live more freely. However, the girl’s relatives continued to put pressure on her. Zaira was afraid that she would soon be forced to get married, and so she ran away.

Immediately after the Zaira’s escape, her family put her on the wanted list, and the relatives wrote threats to her friends, trying to find out where the girl stayed. They have already tried to bring Zaira home twice. At the end of December, due to attempts to find her, Zaira decided to leave Russia.

Zaira said that her relatives continue to look for her in Georgia, and the media are spreading information that she was kidnapped. “This is not true. I ask everyone not to look for me. And I do not want to return home, because I am afraid that I’m in danger there,” the girl says.

The “Caucasian Knot” has reported that human rights defenders from the “Ad Rem” team indicated in their report that the problem of domestic violence in Dagestan, Ingushetia, and Chechnya affects women of different ages, but it is mainly girls and young women under 30 who try to escape from domestic violence.

*Included by the Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) into the register of foreign agents.