NC SOS said authorities later claimed she had returned to Chechnya “voluntarily.” She has not been heard from since. The last known image of her — wearing a long dress and headscarf — was ...

An elderly Chechen man goes to pray at a snow-covered cemetery, a memorial to the Stalin-era deportation's victims, in the Chechen Republic's capital Grozny on March 12, 2021 [File: Musa Sadulayev ...