Mothers of Russian women captured in Iraq ask Putin to return their daughters home

About 50 women from Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Adygea, and other regions of Russia appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request to return their daughters and grandchildren from Iraqi prisons.

"Our daughters succumbed to a false ideology, misunderstood religion, and left for Iraq. And when they realized their mistake, they could not go back and became a living shield for the Islamic grouping. They were deprived of their passports, and militants brutally suppressed any attempts of escape: they even executed people," reports the letter of July 14 (a copy of the letter is available to the "Caucasian Knot").

According to the authors of the letter, "after the liquidation of the ISIL (a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court, – note of the "Caucasian Knot") and the capture of Mosul and other cities of Iraq, their daughters, who are wives of militants, whose fate ... is also unknown, have been again imprisoned, this time in the prisons of Iraq, and many of them have just completely disappeared."

The authors of the letter report receiving from prisons the scanty but disturbing information stating that women and, in particular, children suffer from various infectious diseases, have no basic amenities, and suffer cruel treatment.

The women were encouraged by the President Putin's statement when during the press conference he approved the Ramzan Kadyrov's actions for the return of children and women from Iraq, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by Madina Naloeva, a resident of Nalchik, one of the women who signed the open letter to the Russian President. A daughter of her son with her two children is kept at a prison in Iraq.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on July 15, 2018 at 03:32 am MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.