More than 70 people supported the call to bury Aishat Baimuradova in Armenia.

A petition calling for the body of Ayshat Baimuradova, a Chechen woman murdered in Yerevan, to be handed over to her friends for a funeral in Armenia has garnered 73 signatures in one day.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," 23-year-old Chechen native Ayshat Baimuradova was found dead in a rented apartment in Yerevan on October 19. She fled to Armenia to escape domestic violence, but publicly criticized Kadyrov's regime. Human rights activists have not received the final results of the examination of Baimuradova's body. A request was sent to Russia regarding her burial, but no one was found willing to take Baimuradova's body home within three months. The girl's partner, who lives in Yerevan, is seeking the right to bury Aishat, but the authorities refuse to hand over the body to him, as by law only the next of kin can dispose of the body.

A petition on the Change.Org platform, published by human rights activists in the interests of Ayshat Baimuradova's partner and her friends, had garnered less than 100 signatures within 24 hours of publication. As of 9:40 p.m. Moscow time today, 73 people had supported it.

Although Ayshat's relatives refused to remove her body from the morgue, "there are many people who are ready to give her a humane burial," the petition's initiators noted.

“After moving, she continued to receive threats—both from relatives and from other people in the Chechen Republic—in connection with her flight, as well as her critical attitude toward local social, political, and religious norms. (...) According to human rights activists familiar with Aishat's case, her murder can be classified as an honor killing, a practice widespread in the North Caucasus,” the petition emphasizes.

“Relatives killed her and now they mock her even after death—classic psychopathy,” noted Telegram user N, commenting on the petition’s demands.

User Andrei Morozov, in turn, suggested that the lack of a clear response from the authorities to the petitions regarding Baimuradova’s case is due to the political situation. "I don't think we should expect any progress in this case before the parliamentary elections in Armenia. If Pashinyan's party manages to win, we could learn a lot about Aishat's case," he wrote.

By not collecting the bodies of the murdered Chechen women from the morgue, relatives are demonstrating their disdain for them, human rights activists from the Marem group previously pointed out. They noted that the relatives of Larisa Arsanukayeva, who was murdered in Nice, acted similarly: they waited more than two months to collect the woman's body. Arsanukayeva was buried in her homeland only in early January.

A "Caucasian Knot" reader with the nickname judie also called the behavior of Aishat's relatives indicative. "The fact that the relatives did not retrieve the girl's body from the morgue speaks volumes. This is both indirect evidence of their involvement in the incident and a de facto rejection of a family member. Chechens do not typically leave their dead in morgues, and even those born in Chechnya who die outside the region, including in European and Scandinavian countries, are typically brought back to their homeland for burial. Despite the fact that in the latter cases, this costs quite a lot of money," the December 9 commentary reads.