17:58, 12 August 2025

Teenager from Ingushetia refused further assistance from human rights activists

After leaving a mental hospital in Stavropol, a 16-year-old boy from Ingushetia agreed with his relatives to move to another region, where he will study at a college.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel" reported, on July 4, human rights activists from the Crisis Group SK SOS* filed a report with the Investigative Committee about the disappearance of a teenager who complained of death threats. The authors of the appeal feared that the boy could have been killed or forcibly isolated, and asked to conduct an investigation and, if necessary, open a criminal case. Representatives of two human rights organizations tried to contact the boy's relatives, but were unable to establish contact with them. In late July, a teenager told human rights activists that he was in a psychiatric hospital in Stavropol, but the institution denied that they had such a patient.

A 16-year-old teenager from Ingushetia, who reported beatings and death threats from relatives and was looking for a way to leave the republic, asked human rights activists in advance to file a complaint with the investigative authorities if he stopped communicating. The young man claimed that his relatives took him out of town and put a gun to his head, but then promised to kill him later, when "his uncle returns from the SVO."

A teenager from Ingushetia told human rights activists that he was safe and no longer needed help. He has already been discharged from the clinic, where he was given sedatives and tranquilizers.

According to the young man, his relatives took him from the psychiatric clinic and rented a separate apartment for him in another region. “According to him, the degree of conflict with his family has decreased due to the decision to live separately,” the Crisis Group of SK SOS* reported today.

The young man believes that he is no longer in danger and is happy with how the conflict with his relatives was resolved. In another region, where he now lives, he was allowed to enroll in college.

The young man now lives in a city “far from his native republic, where he and his family could have been pressured,” and in college he plans to study a profession that interests him, according to a publication on the Telegram channel of the “Caucasus without a Mother” project.

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Translated automatically via Google translate from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/413762