A former journalist with the Ingush news website Fortanga, Maysigov was taken from his home by uniformed men at dawn on 12 July 2019 and was held for 13 hours before he was finally registered as being ...

Soviet authorities in the early 1980s still had a strong grip over the country and resolutely suppressed discussions of this topic, particularly within the Chechen and Ingush autonomous republics.

“We call on the Ingush authorities to end this censorship and release Maysigov at once.” His arrest came just one month after a newspaper journalist, Abdulmumin Gadzhiev, was arrested in the nearby ...