Rights defenders refute abduction version of Dagestani Zaira Pirova

The father of Zaira Pirova, who fled from Dagestan to Georgia, claims that his daughter was abducted and is kept under a threat to execute her family. However, human rights defenders object stating that Zaira had left home voluntarily and left Russia because of her relatives' attempts to find her.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that Zaira Pirova left for Georgia because of her relatives forcing her to marriage and pressure in the family, who are trying to find her. The girl claimed that she was in danger in her family.

A video has appeared in Telegram channels, in which Nazim, Zaira's father, stated that those who had helped her flee abroad, are threatening to execute her family, hiding her, and not allowing him to talk to her. The description to the video says that the girl could have been recruited by "psychologists" in order to take her to the UAE and give her into slavery, while they loved Zaira in the family, and no one forced her to marry.

Zaira left home of her own free will; and she left Russia because of attempts to find her, the SK SOS Crisis Group* has informed. Human rights defenders have posted a video, in which the girl, while at the police station, refuses to go away with her relative. They have added that they have some correspondence, in which relatives threaten Zaira's friends.

*Included by the Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) into the register of foreign agents.