"Where is the set?"

Chechenka Seda Suleimanova escaped from her relatives. Then she was returned - and she disappeared. Seven months later, the SK opened the case. For this, thousands of statements were needed

In the evening of August 23, 2023 in St. Petersburg they detained 26-year-old Seda Suleimanov from Chechnya. The police came to the apartment, where she lived with her partner Stanislav Kudryavtsev. They were taken to the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Then Kudryavtsev was released, and Suleimanov was taken to the airport to send to Chechnya. The police said that she was suspected of stealing jewelry in the amount of 150 thousand rubles on the statement written by her mother. Seda herself denied all the accusations.

Since then, neither her friends and relatives or defenders personally saw Suleimanov personally. The police who arrived in Grozny in the police department said that Suleimanov would be brought closer to six o’clock in the evening, and then reported that she was interrogated as a witness in the case and handed over to relatives - uncle and aunt.

A few days later, on August 30, the Chechen Ombudsman Mansur Soltaev showed a photograph of Seda, saying that she was safe and nothing threatens her. “I talked with her relatives and the girl herself. She feels well, ”Soltaev wrote. In the photograph of Suleimanov sits in a scarf. Human rights activists from the crisis group SK SOS noted that a “trace of incomprehensible origin” was visible on her neck.

A few days later, a 15-second video appeared in Soltaev’s channel-on it, along with Sedoy, he descends the stairs of the house, and then she escorts him before leaving the courtyard. Soltaev wrote that the girl met him “in a good mood” and he saw that “it was nice to be with her relatives.” The seda goes on the frames, lowering his eyes, and does not smile. After that, there were no news about Suleimanova for a long time.

Seda Suleimanova escaped from Chechnya in the fall of 2022 with the help of human rights activists from the crisis group SK SOS. To her close friend, Lena Patyeva, whom she met already in St. Petersburg, Seda said that she lived without her father, the head of the family was her older brother Mikail Suleimanov. When she was 18 years old, relatives were going to marry her, but she refused to marry for coercion. Her mother threatened to tell her brother that Seda "behaves too free."

In St. Petersburg, as Patyaeva says, Seda got a job in a cafe, but a month later, in February 2023, a relative of Suleimanova calculated her and came there. For a long time he asked the girl where she lives, what she does and who helps her. Later SK SOS published a record of this conversation from the CCTV camera. “You will disgrace us with this act,” says her relative on the record of Sede Suleimanova, sitting behind the Cafe counter. Patyaeva said that after that he went outside to wait for her to get out of the cafe, but she ran away through the back door, threw the phone and went to Shelter, managing to contact the human rights activists from the passerby's phone.

Suleimanova told her friend several times that relatives would kill her if they found. Human rights activists, according to Patyeva, offered Sede to leave for another country, but she did not want to, because she was afraid to be in an unfamiliar environment, where they speak another language. Soon Seda met Stanislav Kudryavtsev. After some time, they gathered and filed an application with the registry office, and he introduced her to his family and friends. Lena Patyaeva says that the summer in St. Petersburg her friend “lived happily” - they drove around the city together, soda earned a part of a dogiter and planned family life with her fiancé.

After the abduction of Sedya, human rights activists began to look for her and send statements to the prosecutor's office. They were replied that they were called for interrogation, after which she “voluntarily” went to Grozny and decided to stay with her family. In October, the bridegroom of Sedya Stanislav Kudryavtsev said that he accepted Islam to meet with the Sedya Suleimanova family and resolve the issue of the wedding. However, from this, according to the former Moscow municipal deputy Lucy Stein, who was engaged in the Suleimanova case, nothing came of, "because he is Russian."

In February 2024, the friend of Sedya Lena Patyaeva went to a single picket to the building of the prosecutor's office of St. Petersburg with a poster on which it was written: “Is Seda Suleimanov alive? Nobody saw her 150 days. " A month later, she went to the picket again - in a jacket, on which there was an inscription "Where is the Seda?" She was detained and released only two days later. Activists, who lived including abroad, joined the campaign to search for Suleimanova, begun by human rights activists. They went out with posters on which they wrote “where is the seda?”, And sent more than two thousand statements to the investigating authorities.

On April 3, 2024, it became known that the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case in connection with the disappearance of Sedya Suleimanova. “The course and results of the criminal investigation were taken in the investigation department for control,” said the answers from the UK, who began to receive activists who sent statements. Human rights activists said they would find out the details.

SOS in SOS fears that Suleimanova could become a victim of a "murder of honor." In February, they were informed about this by two sources in the region - the director of the crisis group David Isteev called them worthy of trust. However, there was no evidence, as noted in the SOS IC, and there is still no.

One of the human rights activists was able to contact the relatives of Seda by phone. When asked, where is the girl, he replied: “Where is this whore? How is it dead? Yes, here she is lying. " He refused to call her to the phone or take a picture. In addition, as writes the North. Real, the family of Suleimanova also tried to contact the pro -government journalists. They received the consent of relatives to a personal conversation with Sedoy, but at the last moment they were also refused.