Sariya Akhmedovna Lakoba (Russian: Сария Ахмедовна Лакоба; born Sariya Akhmedovna Dzhikh-Ogly Russian: Сария Ахмедовна Джих-оглы; 1904 – 16 May 1939), was a Soviet woman who was the spouse of Nestor Lakoba, the leader of Abkhazia.
[2] Sariya and Nestor met in her parents' home when he was hiding from the British occupation forces.
The NKVD tortured her every evening and beat her severely in order to have her sign a statement against Lakoba and denounce him as an enemy of the Soviet Union.
Her reply each time was, "I will not defame the memory of my husband", so their son Rauf, aged 14, was arrested, brought to the jail where his mother was held, threatened with death if she did not testify, and beaten in front of her.
Sariya repeated refusals to confess angered the NKVD agents, and she finally died in her cell after a night of torture.