Rashid Maysigov
Rashid Maysigov, born 1987, Ingushetia. Charges: Article 228 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Illegal handling of drugs on a large scale); “Rashid Maisigov's drug possession case”. Sentence (September 15, 2020): Three years' imprisonment in a general regime colony. Status: at large. Recognition: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as a political prisoner, December 20, 2020; Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as a political prisoner, December 8, 2020.
In brief
Ingushetia · Nazran · Journalists
Sentence
3 years
Three years' imprisonment in a general regime colony
Upheld July 15, 2021
Charges
- Article 280.1 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code — Public calls for separatism
- Article 228 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Illegal handling of drugs on a large scale
Full wording of the charges
posted a publication on his Instagram page on 22 February 2019, in which he called for Ingushetia's secession from Russia; printed on his printer at least 38 A4 leaflets "Appeal of the Ingush people to the world community" with a request to the Georgian leadership to accept Ingushetia as part of its state, and to the world community to support these actions; on 1-2 June 2019, pasted these leaflets on public transport stops and walls of buildings in Nazran and Magas
Latest event
May 12, 2022 — removed from the rosfinmonitoring list
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, December 20, 2020
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial Human Rights Centre, December 8, 2020
Timeline
· Removed from the Rosfinmonitoring list
· Cassation ruling
case dismissed
· Persecution ends
· Persecution ends
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Pre-trial Detention Centre №1 (SIZO-1) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russian Federation for the Republic of Ingushetia
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 3 years
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Criminal case opened
Rashid Maysigov's case on calls for separatism
· Preventive measure: house arrest
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Pre-trial Detention Centre №1 (SIZO-1) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russian Federation for the Republic of Ingushetia
· Persecution begins
Rashid Maisigov's drug possession case
· Preventive measure: placement in a temporary detention facility
Criminal case
Rashid Maisigov's drug possession case
Rashid Maysigov's case on calls for separatism
Details and sources
Full summary
He was detained on 12 July 2019. According to the official version, a bag of heroin was found in Maisigov's possession during the search. At first, Maysigov signed the text of the interrogation with a testimony that he had bought heroin from a stranger two or three weeks earlier and kept it at his place. However, during the subsequent interrogation he retracted this testimony, saying that he gave it under torture, and the drugs were planted on him. On 16 July he was taken into custody by court order. On 19 November he was placed under house arrest.
In January 2020, Maysigov was charged with calls for separatism. Maysigov initially denied involvement in the imputed texts, but then admitted guilt and agreed to a special procedure for consideration of the case.
On 16 September 2020, he was sentenced to three years in a general regime colony for drug possession and was taken into custody in the courtroom.
On 19 January 2021, Maysigov was reported to have been acquitted in the case of calls for a violation of territorial integrity after the decriminalisation of the corresponding article of the Criminal Code.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Persecution episodes
- 2
Other people prosecuted under Article 228 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.