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Zarema Muzhakhoyeva

b. 1980

Chechen suicide bomber

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About Zarema Muzhakhoyeva

Born 1980.

Zarema Muzhakhoyeva (also transliterated as Muzhikhoeva; ; born 1980) is an Ingush woman and would-be shahidka (female suicide bomber) who surrendered to Moscow police on July 9, 2003, instead of blowing herself up. Before being sent to Moscow, Muzhakhoyeva also failed a mission to attack a bus with the Russian Air Force personnel in Mozdok, North Ossetia, and lived in the house of Nur-Pashi Kulayev in Ingushetia.

Later, an FSB bomb disposal expert, Maj. Georgy Trofimov, was killed while attempting to defuse Muzhakhoyeva's devices.

Muzhakhoyeva was put in the high-security Lefortovo Prison and agreed to become an informant for the FSB; later, she also gave several interviews to the Russian media. Despite her full cooperation with the FSB, which led to several arrests and killings of Riyad-us Saliheen members in Moscow and Chechnya, her young age, and her lack of previous criminal record, in April 2004 she was found guilty of all charges including terrorism and sentenced to 20 years in a prison camp on demand of the jury, which did not find any extenuating circumstances in her case. Her appeal to the Russian Supreme Court was also rejected.

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Important facts

Born
1980, Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
Birth century
Also known as
Sarema Muschachojewa

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Zarema Muzhakhoyeva?

Chechen suicide bomber

When was Zarema Muzhakhoyeva born?

Zarema Muzhakhoyeva was born in 1980 in Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Zarema Muzhakhoyeva

· Wikidata: Q8066723

· DBpedia: Zarema Muzhakhoyeva

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