16:36, 7 May 2026

Lack of contact with a Chechen resident has raised concerns about her fate.

Zukhra Muzaeva. Photo: https://nezagorami.media/post/honor-killing

Zukhra Muzayeva, a 25-year-old Chechen woman and mother of three, has been missing since April. According to sources, she may have been the victim of an "honor killing," the "Freedom (Not) Around the Mountains" project reported, citing the girl's acquaintances. Zukhra's father confirmed that she is abroad.

A 25-year-old Chechen woman, whom her friends have been unable to contact since April, may have been killed by her father over suspicions of infidelity, according to the "Freedom (Not) Around the Mountains" project.

The presumed deceased is Zukhra Muzayeva. She lived in the village of Kurchaloy and was raising three daughters. Human rights activists were informed of the girl's death in late April. The project's sources claim that the girl was killed by her own father. He first shaved her head, then forced her to dig a grave, and finally shot her. The motive for the murder may have been suspicions of infidelity with her husband, who is participating in a military operation in Ukraine.

When human rights activists asked about Zukhra's fate by phone, the man rudely replied that she was "alive and well" and abroad. However, the girl's relatives did not explain to her friends where she had disappeared to.

Zukhra Muzayeva was married when she was no more than 16 years old. By the age of 17, she had given birth to two girls, and then a third daughter was born. Zukhra had a small business selling cosmetics on Instagram*, human rights activists write.

Women whose behavior their relatives considered a disgrace to their family may become victims of "honor killings" in the Caucasus. These murders are committed by relatives themselves, most often a father or brother, according to the Caucasian Knot report "Honor Killings" in the North Caucasus".

"Caucasian Knot" also wrote that 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, 2025. Her funeral took place on November 12. According to the girl's acquaintances, she could have become the victim of an "honor killing," human rights activists reported. Relatives, whom Aliya Ozdamirova, a native of Chechnya, confided, href="https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/417265">knew that she would be in danger upon returning home, according to correspondence between Aliya's friend and a relative.

In November, while Aliya was in Georgia, she was informed that a criminal case had been opened against her for "financing terrorism," and she would now be unable to leave Georgia. On November 8, she was scheduled to fly from Tbilisi with a transfer to a safe country, but an uncle from Baku, with whom Aliya was in contact, urged her to postpone her departure. On the day of her departure, the same uncle from Baku was waiting for Aliya at the Tbilisi airport, promising to fly her to Dubai the next day. Human rights activists warned Aliya that this was likely a trap, but she stated that she trusted her uncle and that he had always been on her side.

Translated automatically via Google translate from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/423056