In St. Petersburg, police detained a girl from Ingushetia who ran away from home due to domestic violence

In St. Petersburg, police detained 18-year-old Leila Gireeva from the Ingush city of Nazran who ran away from home. This was reported by the Marem and projects helping victims of domestic violence in the North Caucasus.

In the afternoon, her relatives came to the apartment near the Vitebsk railway station, where the girl lived for several days, and began to demand that the door be opened. “Leila said that, judging by the voices, they were her cousins,” clarified to Such Affairs. Svetlana Anokhina, founder of Marem,

Gireeva called the police, and they took her to police department No. 28. There she was told that she was being investigated in a criminal case for theft (Article 158 of the Criminal Code). Human rights activists noted that such cases are often initiated based on statements from relatives of runaway girls in order to find them.

A few days before this, Gireeva was added to the federal wanted list of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

“The employees of [OP No. 28] are holding her until the reasons are clarified, awaiting the arrival of colleagues from Ingushetia,” write human rights activists from SK SOS .

“I am an adult, I left home because I was beaten. They beat me and took me to the imams, they tried to cure me of my atheism with the help of the imams and psychiatrists,” the girl says in the video, which she gave to human rights activists after her relatives came for her.

Near the house where Gireeva lived, programmer Vladislav Khorev, who came to her aid, was detained. Khorev was taken away from Gireeva’s house by plainclothes officers from Center E. The Daptar magazine published a story about how Khorev in 2021 helped a girl from a Dagestan family escape from Tyumen.