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Screenshot of Layla’s video from the Twitter account of NC SOS A video of a tearful young girl saying that she ran away from her parents in Ingushetia, a North Caucasus republic in Russia, has been circulating in the Russian-speaking segment of Twitter for the last few days. In the video, Leylasays that her parents want to “treat” her atheism in any way they could, including beating and medicating her. “I will kill myself if I have to return to this hell,” she adds. She was arrested and detained by the Saint-Petersburg police (the girl called the police when her relatives found her in St. Pete…
