Activists reported a lack of information about Belkisa Mintsayeva.

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For over 20 days, there has been no contact with Belkisa Mintsayeva, a native of Chechnya, who is under arrest at one of the republic's police departments. Lawyers have been denied access to her and are being intimidated.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," on April 14, Lidiya Mikhalchenko, head of the "Motherless Caucasus" human rights project, reported that security forces in the Nadterechny District of Chechnya detained 33-year-old Belkisa Mintsayeva "without any grounds." According to the human rights activist, Mintsaeva's children are with her ex-husband. According to Mikhalchenko, before her arrest, Mintsaeva arrived in Chechnya under pressure from security forces, who threatened to send her brother to the SVO. On April 24, activists reported that there was no contact with Mintsaeva, she had not been charged, and no lawyer had been provided.

Belkisa Mintsaeva, a native of Chechnya, who tried to secure her daughters' residence with her after her divorce from her husband, has remained in custody for over twenty days at a police station in Chechnya, the organization "Motherless Caucasus" told a Caucasian Knot correspondent on May 5.

"Lawyers are not being allowed in and are being intimidated." "She disappeared on April 13, and there has been no news of her since," the activists stated.

As a reminder, on April 9, a video message from Novosibirsk resident Belkisa to the head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, was published. She stated that two years ago, her ex-husband "abducted" her two daughters while they were vacationing with their grandmother (Belkisa's mother) in Chechnya. In August 2024, the Nadterechny District Court, acting on Belkisa's claim, ruled that the 12-year-old daughter should remain with her mother, while the nine-year-old daughter remained with her father while the trial to determine her place of residence was ongoing. On April 6, Belkisa traveled to Chechnya to see her younger daughter. The girl, whose place of residence the court had not yet determined, said she wanted to live with her mother and sister, and Belkisa took her daughter to Novosibirsk. Then, according to her, her ex-husband filed a child abduction report against her and an acquaintance who accompanied her on the trip. Belkisa's acquaintance was detained, and his whereabouts are unknown, while Belkisa and her relatives began receiving threats from various numbers claiming to be her ex-husband.

The court's decision and bailiff visits provide no guarantee that a mother separated from her child in the Caucasus will be able to see him. Six such stories that have come to light in recent years are collected in the "Caucasian Knot" report "Courts and Customs: How Mothers Are Separated from Their Children in the Caucasus".