The Ingush Activist Zarifa Sautieva is Free

As reported by the leader of the Committee for Ingush Independence, Ansar Garkho, Zarifa Sautieva, former deputy director of the “Memorial Complex for Victims of Repression” in Ingushetia, was released from the Zelenokum women’s colony.
Zarifa Sautieva’s story was presented in the international human rights project “Putin’s Real Prisoners. Political Prisoners of Enslaved Nations.”
Sautieva was arrested in July 2019 and placed in a pre-trial detention centre. On 10 March 2021, the activist was placed under house arrest, but six days later, on 16 March, she was again retaken into custody. In December 2021, the court sentenced her to 7.5 years in prison.
Zarifa Sautieva served her full sentence, including time spent in a pre-trial detention centre.
She became the first of those convicted in the “Ingush case” to be released.