Patyaeva detained at picket in St. Petersburg

Security forces took Seda Suleimanova's friend Lena Patyaeva to the police station after she had been holding a solitary picket near the Akhmat Kadyrov Bridge for four hours.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel" reported, Lena Patyaeva, two years after security forces took Seda Suleimanova to Chechnya, held a picket in St. Petersburg demanding that her friend's killers be punished. According to sources, Suleimanova was killed and buried in Chechnya back in November 2023, human rights activists reported.

Seda Suleimanova's friend Lena Patyaeva was detained by security forces after a four-hour solo picket near the Akhmat Kadyrov Bridge in St. Petersburg. The police who arrived said that they would take Lena to the station to give an explanation to the district police officer about Seda's abduction, the Slovo Zashchiti project reported today on its Telegram channel.

This picket was the sixth that Lena Patyaeva has held, and she was detained by security forces at all of them, the SOS* Investigative Committee Crisis Group noted.

On June 16, 2025, it became known that the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs had declared Suleimanov wanted. This indicates rather an imitation of activity, since when a criminal case is initiated, all active actions to search for the missing person are carried out at the discretion of the Investigative Committee investigator, human rights activists pointed out. It is noteworthy that the police officers who detained Patyaeva after the March picket in Grozny, called Suleimanova's fate a "family matter".