Human rights activists called on the Investigative Committee to open a case after the death of a girl in Chechnya. Relatives considered her a victim of domestic violence

International and Russian human rights organizations sent a letter to the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, with a request to open a criminal case into the death of 23-year-old Chechen Madina Umaeva, reports MBKH Media . The girl’s relatives claimed that she died from her husband’s beatings, but later Madina’s mother apologized to the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, for such statements.

The letter says that human rights activists appealed to the head of the Investigative Committee due to “the lack of an effective investigation into the death” of Umaeva and “pressure on the investigation by executive authorities.” They paid attention to the circumstances of Madina’s death - they seemed strange to them.

The letter was signed by 23 organizations, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, International Federation for Human Rights, the Civic Assistance Committee, Zone of Law, Public Verdict and the Human Rights Center Memorial.

At the end of June, the body of 23-year-old Madina was exhumed to determine the cause of her death. The mother of the deceased, Khutmat Dovletmirzaeva, said that shortly before her death, Madina quarreled with her husband and his relatives. The reason was child benefit, for which she bought a TV without permission. The husband and mother-in-law stated that the girl had an epileptic seizure - she fell down the stairs and could not be saved.

The aunt of the deceased said that Madina got married at 16 and gave birth to three children, and that there were often quarrels in the family - the mother-in-law complained about her daughter-in-law to her son, he beat her.

A few days after the exhumation of the body of the deceased, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, announced the results of the autopsy. According to him, the examination showed that there were no signs of violent death. He demanded that Dovletmirzaeva disclose the original source of information about the murder of her daughter. Kadyrov also said that for this purpose, the FSB will check with whom Khutmat spoke on the phone.