Zelim Bakaev

Known for

Acting

Gender

Female

Born

April 23, 1992

Age at death

25

Died

August 8, 2017

From

Grozny, Chechen Republic of Ichkeria

Zelimkhan Khoussainovich Bakaev (Russian: Зелимхан Хусаинович Бакаев; born 23 April 1992) is a Chechen singer. He disappeared in Chechnya on 8 August 2017, while on a brief visit to the region to attend his sister's wedding. He is widely believed to have been abducted, tortured, and murdered by the Chechen authorities as part of their systematic persecution of homosexual men.