19:55, 3 November 2025

The name of a possible accomplice in the murder of Baimuradova has been named

Saiid-Khamzat Baysarov, a native of Chechnya who was previously involved in a terrorist financing case in Moscow, left the Yerevan apartment where Aishat Baimuradova was killed with Karina Iminova.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," 23-year-old Aishat Baimuradova, a native of Chechnya who fled domestic violence to Armenia with the help of human rights activists, failed to return from a walk on October 15 when she went to meet a friend. On October 17, police issued a search warrant for Baimuradova, and on October 19, Aishat was found dead in a rented apartment on Demirchyan Street in Yerevan. Baimuradova fled to Armenia to escape domestic violence, but at the same time, publicly criticized Kadyrov's regime, the human rights activist said. On October 27, a petition demanding an investigation into the girl's death was published; by November 2, it had collected over a thousand signatures.

On October 20, human rights activists released information about the girl Aishat was dating: according to them, Karina Iminova lied to acquaintances about her past and deliberately met people who had left Chechnya. She is not a native of Chechnya, but had visited the republic, where she had received traffic tickets. Among Iminova's Instagram followers* was Rubati Mitsayeva, who defected to Kadyrov in 2021. Karina left Armenia for Russia immediately after Baimuradova's murder, as did another person seen with her on CCTV footage outside her apartment on Demirchyan Street. Said-Khamzat Baysarov, a 30-year-old native of Chechnya, was captured on CCTV footage on Demirchyan Street in Yerevan after the murder of Aishat Baymuradova. Baysarov left the apartment with Karina Iminova, who had summoned Aishat to a meeting, where she was later found dead, the Telegram channel "Ostorogno Novosti" reported today, citing a source.

Said-Khamzat Baysarov was arrested in December 2018 for financing the Islamic State terrorist organization, banned in Russia, but a year later the court dropped the charges against him. Baysarov was also involved in criminal cases involving robbery and drunk driving. Baysarov's father is a businessman in Grozny.

Investigators in Armenia identified Baysarov from security footage and questioned residents of the building about him. However, according to human rights activists, they are not suspects and are not wanted.

“Armenian law enforcement agencies currently know both individuals who left the apartment where Aishat was killed. However, they have not been classified as suspects or placed on the wanted list, which raises questions regarding the transparency and efficiency of the investigation,” according to a post on the Telegram channel of the SOS* Crisis Group.

Aishat Baimuradova told human rights activists that she fled “from beatings.” According to her, she was forced to leave her home due to violence from her husband, and was unable to return to her parents’ home because she feared facing violence from her father. After leaving Russia, she came to Armenia.

Chechnya’s Human Rights Commissioner, Mansur Soltayev, stated in late October that Aishat Baimuradova had a conflict with human rights activists; commentators called his version absurd. Chechen authorities used Baimuradova's murder to intimidate potential fugitives from Chechnya, and Soltayev became the face of this campaign, human rights activists pointed out.

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