Said Zubayev

Staropromyslovski victim record STA-K023 · HRW numbered entry 23

Recorded age: 68 · Date of death / discovery: 19 January 2000 · Place: Zubayev family home, Grozny · Evidence status: Body found in the street

Documented circumstances

Said Zubayev left a communal shelter after soldiers inspected residents’ papers, believing it was safe to return to his home. His wife Zeinap and daughter Malikah set off to find him about one or two hours later, and found him shot dead in a street in an area controlled by Russian forces. Two neighbouring men heard their screams and helped bring his body to the family home, where it was buried on 20 January.

Limits of the evidence

The HRW investigation documents the discovery, the state of the area and the burial. Neither survivor personally witnessed the shot that killed Said.

This memorial is based on the original Human Rights Watch witness investigation and its separately numbered list of 38 reported victims. It is not an independent criminal judgment. Where the source relies on a body discovery or secondhand report rather than an eyewitness to the shooting, that distinction is preserved. Missing surnames and photographs are not invented.

Other linked victims of this episode

Zeinap Zubayeva · Ruslan Zubayev · Malikah Zubayeva · Mariet Zubayeva · Luiza Zubayeva · Said-Magomet Zubayev · Alina Zubayeva · Larisa Zubayeva · Eliza Zubayeva

Sources and archive

HRW, Civilian Killings in Staropromyslovski District of Grozny (February 2000) · HRW, letter of 10 February 2000 — numbered list of 38, entry 23.

38-person name register and six disappearances · Historical dossier