Zeinap Zubayeva

Staropromyslovski victim record STA-K024 · HRW numbered entry 24

Recorded age: 64 · Date of death / discovery: Night of 20 January, found 21 January · Place: Zubayev family home, Grozny · Evidence status: Body found among eight family victims

Documented circumstances

Zeinap was the wife of Said Zubayev. After finding her husband shot in the street on 19 January, she and relatives brought his body home with the help of neighbours. Two witnesses visited the family property on the morning of 21 January and found Zeinap shot dead in the courtyard, among seven other members of the household. The house was smouldering and reportedly looted.

Limits of the evidence

The witnesses found the bodies but did not observe each individual shot. The report’s attribution to Russian forces is based on their evidence of control and armoured-vehicle traces.

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

Said Zubayev · 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 24.

38-person name register and six disappearances · Historical dossier