A Tajik woman living in the Russian city of Tyumen was reportedly taken to police station on December 19, while her 7 children, aged one to 12, were left at home unattended without food and heat the whole day.
URA.RU reports police officers took Sanat F. (the woman’s name is changed at her request) to police station in the evening of December 19 at around 7:00 pm, while her seven children, aged one to 12, were left unattended without food and heat in a private house with stove heating the whole day.
According to Sanat F., police officers said that they would just check her documents and she would return home. However, she reportedly spent more than one day in the police station. She returned home only by 20:00 pm of December 20.
According to her, police officers asked her not to say where she had been because her presence in the police station allegedly had not been registered.
Sanat F. Has lived in Tyumen for more than 12 years. She has Tajik passport and has no any perspectives to legalize her stay in Tyumen. Sanat F., who is pregnant, does not work now.
Russian human rights activists say Sanat F. and her children can be deported to Tajikistan. Ms. Yelena Maisyuk, the chairperson of “Radost” (Gladness) Public Association, says Sanat F. has nobody in Tajikistan and deporting Sanat F. and her children to Tajikistan means to doom them to beggarly existence.
The press service of the Russian Interior Ministry’s office for Tyumen Oblast has failed to clarify details of the situation.
