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North Caucasian women appeal to Putin over families imprisoned in Iraq

by OC Media

•3 min read

Around 50 women from the North Caucasus have appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin to help return family members imprisoned in Iraq to Russia, according to Caucasian Knot. In a letter addressed to the president on 15 July, the group appealed for their relatives to face trial in their homeland. According to the letter, more than 50 women and 100 children from Russia are currently being held in Iraqi prisons because of their alleged connection to the Islamic State (IS). Nineteen Russia

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Five Chechen and Daghestani children return from Iraq

by OC Media

•2 min read

A chartered plane from Iraq landed in Moscow on October 11, with five children from Chechnya and Dagestan on board. The children’s parents had joined up to fight for the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq several years ago. The children were accompanied by Ziyad Sabsabi, Presidential Plenipotentiary for Chechnya. They were met in the airport by Children’s Rights Commissioner Anna Kuznetsova and Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova. Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said on his Instagr

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Wives and children of Islamic State militants return home

by Aida Mirmaksumova

•6 min read

Four women and eight children arrived in Grozny on the evening of 1 September from the Iraqi city of Mosul. They were returning from Syria, where they had traveled with their husbands to join the Islamic State. Together with their relatives, OC Media’s special correspondent was waiting for them in the airport. Travelling on the flight from Mosul were three women from Russia and one from Kazakhstan, all with small children aged between eight months and nine years. This was the first fligh

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Chechen women ask Kadyrov to return children from IS

by OC Media

•2 min read

A group of women from Chechnya appealed on 10 August for Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov to help return their daughters and grandchildren from areas controlled by the Islamic State. They also appealed to the well-known Chechen human rights activist Kheda Saratova with the same request. ‘Hundreds of young Chechen women not wanting to divorce and break their families, or being tricked by their husbands, have been forced to leave our country with their husbands and children and are now in war

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Four-year-old boy returned to Chechnya from Iraq

by OC Media

•2 min read

A four-year-old boy whose father took him Iraq two years ago was returned to Chechnya on 2 August. A large number of people from Jordan, Iraq, and Chechnya participated in his return, according to Chechen authorities. Khasan Tagirov took his four-year-old son Bilal Tagirov to Iraq two years ago. During the recent operation to retake Mosul from Islamic State control, the boy’s father was captured by soldiers from the Iraqi Army, and relatives in Chechnya learned of the child’s fate after

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Chechen woman appeals for return of child from Iraq

by OC Media

•1 min read

On 17 July, a woman from Chechnya applied to the local Prosecutor’s Office with a request to assist her in bringing back her young son from Iraq. The Prosecutor’s Office has begun verification of her claims. According to a statement released by the Chechen Prosecutor’s Office, the then–two-year-old son of Zulikha Ashakhanova was kidnapped two years ago by her former husband and taken to a location conflict zone within Syria. ‘The prosecutor of the republic has immediately began to inve

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Russia to toughen laws on children traveling abroad

by OC Media

•2 min read

Rules for children departing abroad from Russia must be tightened, according to Russia’s Children’s Rights Commissioner, to prevent children from being taken by parents to Syria or Iraq. According to the commissioner, Anna Kuznetsova, there are a lack of serious barriers to prevent such cases, and rules for children should not be allowed to depart without the permission of a second parent. Kuznetsova says that this is how most Russian children end up in the conflict zones in Syria and Ira