The famous human rights activist, member of the Human Rights Council under the head of Chechnya Hed Saratov died after a long illness. This was reported to RIA Novosti by the head of the HRC in Chechnya Timur Aliyev.

As familiar to human rights activists told Medusa, complications were the cause of death after the coronavirus. She was 55 years old.

The Minister of Information and Press of Chechnya, Ahmed Dudaev, expressed his condolences about Saratova’s death on his Instagram: “She did not disregard not a single thing, requiring attention from human rights activists, took part in the most resonant matters, defended the rights of oppressed around the world. I have always been true to my work. She carried honesty and responsiveness through all her work ... Her death is a huge loss for our republic. ”

Since 1995, Heda Saratova has been working as an independent journalist, actively collaborated with many human rights organizations. Since 2009, it was headed by the information and analytical agency "lens".
In recent years, it has been actively helping in the search and return of home women and children who were forcibly taken to the war zones in Syria and Iraq.
In April 2017, commenting on the information of Novaya Gazeta about the abductions and murders of gays in Chechnya, Hed Saratov said that law enforcement agencies and “the entire judicial system” “would be understood” with his relatives with understanding, “they will not go hilled and protect this person”. The next day, she said that she was not so understood.

The Chechen human rights activist Hed Saratov died