The Speaker of the Armenian Parliament commented on the case of Aishat Baimuradova.

Speaker of the Armenian Parliament, Alen Simonyan, expressed his readiness to assist human rights activists with the legal formalities involved in organizing the funeral of Ayshat Baimuradova, a native of Chechnya, who was murdered in Yerevan. He also assured that Armenian law enforcement agencies are searching for the girl's killers.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," a petition calling for the return of Ayshat Baimuradova's body was published on January 23 on the Change.org platform by the human rights organization "Crisis Group SK SOS"*. Human rights activists noted that the girl's partner, who lives in Yerevan, is seeking the right to bury Ayshat, but by law, only the next of kin can dispose of the body. At the same time, representatives of the Armenian Ministry of Internal Affairs insist on the return of Baimuradova's body to her formal relatives to avoid future claims.

Speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia Alen Simonyan, familiar with the case of Aishat Baimuradova, expressed his willingness to help human rights activists retrieve the body of the murdered Chechen native from the morgue for burial. Speaking to reporters, he promised to "do everything possible" to resolve the formalities of the matter, the SK SOS* Crisis Group reported today.

“I’m ready to assist them. Let them contact me, let them contact my office. It’s very easy, just contact me, I’ll do everything I can,” Alen Simonyan said on one of the TV channels 1 . The politician added that he had seen a journalistic investigation about Ayshat and that Armenian law enforcement agencies continue to search for Baimuradova’s killers.

A petition calling for Baimuradova’s body to be handed over to her friends and human rights activists for burial had garnered 125,000 signatures as of 9:40 p.m. Moscow time today. Five people signed it in the last six hours, according to data from the Change.org platform.

23-year-old Chechen native Ayshat Baimuradova was found dead on October 19, 2025, in a rented apartment in Yerevan. She fled to Armenia to escape domestic violence, but publicly criticized Kadyrov's regime. Human rights activists have not received the final results of the autopsy on Baimuradova's body. A request was sent to Russia regarding her burial, but no one was found willing to take Baimuradova's body home within three months.

Baimuradova told human rights activists that she fled "from beatings." According to her, she was forced to leave her home due to violence from her husband, and she could not return to her parents' home because she feared facing violence from her father. After leaving Russia, she came to Armenia.

Aishat Baimuradova's relatives live in the Gudermes district, and many of them, like the murdered woman's ex-husband, have ties to the security forces, wrote Caucasian Knot reader nerissa in a comment on January 30. "One of the reasons for the murder, as some observers believe, could have been that the girl not only led a lifestyle considered 'wrong' by her family, but also [...] dared to threaten her father by publicizing certain facts of his [behavior] and openly criticized the Chechen authorities. Thus, in addition to everything else, her murder can also be seen as a demonstration of her relatives' loyalty to the republic's leadership," the reader noted.

Karina Iminova, whom Aishat had met before her death, and 30-year-old Chechen native Said-Khamzat Baysarov were seen near the house where Baimuradova's body was found. According to human rights activists, Karina Iminova lied to acquaintances about her past and purposefully met people who had left Chechnya. Although she herself is not a native of Chechnya, she had visited the republic. Iminova and Baysarov left Armenia for Russia immediately after Baimuradova's murder.

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