Zarina Sautieva is a human rights defender and researcher from Ingushetia, Russia. She has a master's degree in International Protection of Human Rights and worked at the human rights organization Stichting Justice Initiative. She was also a Galina Starovoitova Fellow on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution, a Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and an in-residence fellow with the Democracy Fellowship program at the Center for European Policy Analysis.