Zarifa Sautiyeva, Only Woman Among Ingush Seven, Released from Prison Colony after Completing Her Sentence

Paul Goble
    Staunton, Jan. 6 – Zarifa Sautiyeva, the only woman among the Ingush Seven and for many beyond Ingushetia the face of resistance to Russian repression there, has been released from a prison camp after completing her sentence, including time in pre-trial detention. The other six remain behind bars, and her fate now that she has been set free is uncertain.
    Sautiyeva, who had been the popular deputy director of the Memorial Complex for Victims of Repression before her arrest, has suffered from ill-health while incarcerated. Her case, unlike that of many other non-Russians, attracted the attention of Russian and international human rights activists.
    On her release, see t.me/aifsk/31557 and abn.org.ua/en/news/the-ingush-activist-zarifa-sautieva-is-free/, For background on this remarkable activist and the support she has received, see windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2020/08/zarifa-sautiyeva-from-student-of.html, windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2020/05/zarifa-sautiyeva-ingush-political.html and windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2020/02/171-russian-rights-activists-and-public.html.