Jamila Garunova was placed under house arrest following the revelation of the situation.

The Supreme Court of Dagestan has placed pregnant Jamila Garunova under house arrest. Human rights activists say the move was facilitated by the publicity surrounding the situation.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," pregnant Jamila Garunova has been held in the Khasavyurt pretrial detention center for four months. The prosecution was initiated after Jamila left her husband, who regularly beat her, according to the head of the Dagestan Public Monitoring Commission. Social media users have noted that the prosecutor's office and the human rights ombudsman must ensure that Jamila Garunova's rights are respected. Her ex-husband insists he gave her 3.5 million rubles for business development; she claims he opened cards in her name but withdrew the money himself. The prosecution of Garunova in a fraud case was initiated in Khasavyurt due to her ex-husband's close ties to security forces in that city. Following the publicity surrounding the situation, the head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, ordered an investigation into the detention of pregnant Dzhamilya Garunova in connection with the fraud case.

The court agreed to transfer Garunova to house arrest

Today, an appeal hearing was held in the Supreme Court of the Republic of Dagestan regarding the decision to keep Dzhamilya Garunova in custody, Shamil Khadulaev, head of the Public Monitoring Commission of Dagestan, reported on his Telegram channel.

The prosecutor upheld the earlier decision to arrest her, but given that she is seven months pregnant, the prosecutor did not object to Garunova's request to change her pretrial detention and transfer her to house arrest. Ultimately, Dagestan Supreme Court Judge Natalya Mramorova decided to transfer Dzhamilya Garunova to house arrest and release her from Pretrial Detention Center No. 3 in Khasavyurt, Khadulaev reported.

Garunova was initially placed under house arrest, but in her third month of pregnancy, she began experiencing pain, and an inspector granted her permission to see a doctor. However, the court deemed this a violation and transferred the pregnant woman to a pretrial detention center, the human rights group Marem wrote today.

Publicity contributed to Garunova's release.

Human rights activists emphasized the importance of publicity and public support. "We are grateful to everyone who reposted publications about Jamila, who spread information about her, who wrote and offered their support. Yes, there is still a long road ahead with the legal proceedings (after all, Jamila faces serious charges), but the main thing is that she is at home and can calmly take care of her health and prepare for the birth of her baby. We believe that justice will definitely prevail in this complex case! Especially with such overwhelming public support!" the Marem Telegram channel stated.

"A victory for society! The father of this victory is Shamil Khadulaev. This is what happens when the right person is working in the right place!" commented Arsen Magomedov, an activist with the GorodNash movement and lawyer.

As a reminder, Khadulaev previously contributed to the publicity surrounding the case of Muscovite Anastasia Goysan, who was held in a Makhachkala pretrial detention center for over six months on charges of embezzlement. She succeeded in having her case transferred to the capital for consideration. In April 2025, Anastasia Goysan, then being held in a Makhachkala pretrial detention center, went on a hunger strike. She justified her protest by citing the fact that, for nine months, investigators had failed to provide her with the date when, according to their version, she was in Makhachkala in 2021 and took money from the victim, Aliyev. On April 10, she was released from custody. The investigator again filed a motion for Goysan's arrest in Dagestan, but a Makhachkala court dismissed the case on May 27.

Former dancer with the Todes show ballet, Anastasia Goysan, lived in a civil marriage with Ibragimov, a native of Dagestan who worked in the Moscow tax authorities. During their life together, Ibragimov registered real estate in Goysan's name so that "there would be no unnecessary questions" about him, wrote the author of the blog "Nalchik and Neighbors. The Caucasus in Search of Justice" on the "Caucasian Knot". After another breakup, the couple agreed to re-register and divide the property, but subsequently Ibragimov began to stalk his former lover and achieved her criminal prosecution in Dagestan, where he has connections in law enforcement agencies, according to the blogger's publication "Prisoner of the Caucasus. How love drove a Muscovite to madness". Goysan herself insists that she had never been to Dagestan before security forces took her there and placed her under arrest.