A member of an influential family left Chechnya due to a death threat.

Human rights activists helped a young man from an influential Chechen family avoid reprisals from his relatives by organizing his evacuation from the republic.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," 33-year-old Aliya Ozdamirova, who fled Chechnya due to threats from her family, was deceived or forcibly taken from Georgia to the republic on November 9. Her funeral took place on November 12. According to her acquaintances, she may have been the victim of an "honor killing," human rights activists reported. Ozdamirova's father, who died in 2020, was a close associate of Kadyrov and the head of the Gudermes district. Relatives confided in Chechen native Aliya Ozdamirova knew she was in danger upon returning home, according to correspondence between Aliya's friend and her relative.

A young man from an influential family fled Chechnya with the help of human rights activists, where he was facing death threats. This was reported by the SK SOS* Crisis Group.

According to the group, the family threatened to kill the young man because "his sexual orientation was revealed." "After escaping, he was in Russia for less than a few hours: he was almost immediately sent elsewhere. His case was fraught with high risks and did not allow for any delays," the group's Telegram channel reported.

SK SOS* did not reveal the defendant's name or other identifying information, but provided only the following evacuation detail: at the airport, the case manager gave the young man a new phone and took the old one with her. She needed to dispose of the old phone without revealing the defendant's route, so she threw it out the window of a moving taxi, giving the driver a plausible explanation for her actions.

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