EXPRESS GAZETA/EAST2WEST Transgender woman Raina Aliev was butchered to death

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Raina Aliev, formerly Adam, was dismembered in Moscow after marrying a man known as Viktor, in Russia. Just days earlier her father – who disowned Raina – issued a chilling warning to his daughter, saying: "Let him be killed, I don't want to see him. Bring him here and kill him in front of my eyes."

EXPRESS GAZETA/EAST2WEST Raina Aliev and her husband Viktor

Raina had told Russian police she had received death threats after transitioning to a woman. It is unclear where the 25-year-old was killed but her body was so badly “cut up” that those who knew Raina said she was unrecognisable. The victim was from an ethnically Chechen family living in Dagestan, a Muslim region between the Caspian Sea and Chechnya in the Russian Trans-Caucasus.

EXPRESS GAZETA/EAST2WEST Raina Aliev on her wedding day

After undergoing sex change surgery in Moscow a month ago, a wedding ceremony was held before the murder took place just days later, according to local media. It remains unclear whether the marriage was formally legalised and how the savage murder took place. Russian media station Ren TV said: “He was hated for his non-traditional sexual orientation and when he changed his sex he was damned and received threats. “The young man decided to change his sex because he wanted to marry the man he loved, Viktor from Karachaevo-Cherkessiya (another mainly Muslim region in southern Russia).”

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The wedding shocked locals, with a female neighbour claiming the victim’s dad “had a stroke” when he found out about the sex change and wedding. Her father then issued a “purman” – effectively giving permission for people to kill his daughter. The neighbour said: “He cheated them, he went there to Moscow, had surgery and he turned from a boy to a girl. **WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT BELOW**

EXPRESS GAZETA/EAST2WEST Photos reportedly of the scene of the killing

EXPRESS GAZETA/EAST2WEST The ID of Raina before her sex change