Indigenous Karaite woman from Crimea abducted a year ago found in torture chambers

Saha Mangubi, a resident of Crimea, was abducted in Crimea back in 2024. After 15 months of excuses and vague answers from the occupation police, the woman was officially accused of 'treason'.

This was reported by the Voice of Crimea.

The story of the woman's disappearance began on November 2, 2024. Sahu was taken away from her home by persons in camouflage, and since then the connection has been completely broken. The relatives tried to act in the legal field, but this did not help the case move forward. In particular, the Russians refused to open a case on the fact of kidnapping. The security forces advised the family to 'appeal' directly to the FSB, which at the same time denied any involvement in the detention and concealed the woman's whereabouts.

As of early February 2026, it is known that Saha is under arrest. She is charged under Article 275 of the Russian Criminal Code ('high treason'). The details of the alleged crime are not disclosed publicly, as Russian special services traditionally do in other similar cases to conceal the lack of evidence.

The woman has two young children waiting for her at home, who are currently in a state of complete obscurity. There are still no official comments from the occupation authorities, and her health and detention conditions remain unknown. Human rights activists emphasize that Saha became the first Karaite political prisoner, a representative of the small indigenous people of Crimea. The number of Karaites is currently extremely small, which makes each such persecution a threat to the preservation of the ethnic group.

Earlier it became known that the children of the Kherson Regional Children's Home, who were illegally taken by the Russian military during the occupation of the city in 2022, were transferred to foster families in the temporarily occupied Crimea.

According to representatives of the occupation authorities, out of 47 deported children, 42 were placed in Crimean families, and five more remain in the Simferopol institution "Yolochka". It is known that at the time of the deportation, all the children were under 5 years old, and some of them have complex diagnoses such as cerebral palsy or autism.

Катерина Глушко