Held captive or killed?: Khalimat Taramova was forced into ‘conversion therapy’ at an unlicensed ‘clinic’ near Moscow. Now, no one knows if she’s dead or alive.

On August 11, the Telegram channel Baza reported that Khalimat Taramova had made another attempt to escape Chechnya. The 22-year-old fled to a women's shelter in neighboring Dagestan back in June, but was forcibly returned to her family by Chechen police officers. Human rights activists don't know where Khalimat Taramova is now and some fear that she may in fact be dead. Meduza learned that not long before her first attempt to flee Chechnya, Taramova's parents sent her to an unlicensed "elite clinic" on the outskirts of Moscow, where alleged doctors spent several months trying to "cure" the young woman of her relationship with her partner, Anna Manylova. Here's what Meduza found out about what happened to Khalimat Taramova before and after she fled Chechnya. Original Article: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/08/26/held-captive-or-killed