Aishat Khizrieva was able to leave Russia.

Ayshat Khizrieva, a native of Chechnya who was the target of an attempted kidnapping in Novosibirsk, has urgently fled Russia. She thanked everyone who publicized her case.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," Ayshat Khizrieva, a native of Chechnya who was the target of an attempted kidnapping in Novosibirsk, left a police station at night after filing a report of stalking and attempted kidnapping. The people who attempted to kidnap her claimed she was accused of theft, but police have not confirmed that she is missing. Ayshat stated that she is in danger within her family. Khizrieva fled Chechnya on her own, without turning to human rights activists, and hired a lawyer herself .

Aishat Khizrieva has left Russia and is now safe, human rights activists reported this evening. The girl was able to urgently leave the country after learning that she was not officially wanted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and that no theft report had been filed against her. She could not remain in the Russian Federation due to the risk of further kidnapping attempts, as the police "did not help her in any way," according to the human rights group Marem.

A video recording made by Khizrieva herself for human rights activists was published by the Crisis Group SK SOS (listed as a foreign agent). In the recording, Aishat states that she is "fine" and safe.

The girl thanked everyone who helped her and spread the word about what happened to her. "Only thanks to this, I think, am I able to stand here and record this video," Aishat said. She recorded the video in a public place, without specifying her location.

"A great many people—journalists, human rights activists, and simply caring individuals—helped Aishat emerge from yesterday's incident alive and well," the organization noted.

The problem of domestic violence in Dagestan, Ingushetia, and Chechnya affects women of all ages, but it is primarily young women under 30 who seek to escape, human rights activists from the Ad Rem team noted in their report. The problem of evacuating victims of domestic violence is most acute in these regions, as authorities and security forces there side with domestic abusers.

In June 2023, the BBC released the documentary "When I Escaped" about young women from the North Caucasus who managed to escape the control of their families. For victims of domestic violence, escape often becomes the only option to save their lives, human rights activists emphasized.

Women whose behavior is considered a disgrace to their family by their relatives can become victims of "honor killings" in the Caucasus. Such murders are committed by relatives themselves, most often a father or brother, according to the Caucasian Knot report "Honor Killings" in the North Caucasus. According to human rights activists, the victim of such a crime was, in particular, Chechen native Seda Suleimanova, who was detained in St. Petersburg in August 2023 and taken against her will to relatives in Chechnya. In April 2024, it became known that the Investigative Committee was investigating the girl's disappearance under the article on murder, according to the Caucasian Knot report "The Abduction of Seda Suleimanova".

Several years after Suleimanova's abduction, Seda's friend Lena Patyaeva continues to seek an investigation.Patyaeva became the main initiator of the "Where "Seda?", she writes appeals to government agencies and holds solo pickets, as a result of which she faces detentions and arrests.