A girl who fled Ingushetia was detained in Moscow.

Aina Mankieva from Ingushetia, who claimed she would be in danger if she returned home, was detained by police in Moscow. Security forces refused to allow Aina's lawyer to see her, human rights activists reported.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," 20-year-old Aina Mankieva from Ingushetia, who was reported missing by her relatives in the spring of 2025, distributed a video message asking people not to look for her or inform her relatives of her whereabouts. The girl stated that returning home "could threaten" her life, health, and safety. The fugitives' claims about the danger of returning home are well-founded, human rights activists pointed out.

Moscow police intend to hand over Aina Mankieva, who ran away from home, to Ingush officers, the human rights group Marem reported.

According to human rights activists, the 21-year-old woman was detained at the hostel where she was staying and taken to the Sviblovo district police station. There, Mankieva was told she was being detained under Article 158 of the Russian Criminal Code for theft.

"Police officers have already stated that they will not allow a lawyer to see Aina," the SK SOS* Crisis Group noted on its Telegram channel.

Aina left Ingushetia in April 2025 with the help of human rights activists. She did not have any valuables or even her passport. Her relatives immediately placed her on the wanted list as missing. Human rights activists provided security forces with a video recorded by Aina, confirming that she had voluntarily left home, after which Mankieva was removed from the wanted list.

"Security forces leaked the video recorded for the police to Telegram groups. And now, eight months after her escape, a theft case has emerged," the publication notes.

Ayna's family belongs to the influential Batalkhadzhin community; her father was previously arrested for selling a child. Ayna herself is visually impaired and, according to human rights activists, "was subjected to violence in her family since childhood." They are convinced that the theft case, which was "discovered" only eight months later, was fabricated to bring the girl home. Seda Suleimanova was similarly accused of theft, "but the criminal case disappeared as soon as she arrived in the republic."

Seda Suleimanova, a native of Chechnya, was detained in St. Petersburg in August 2023 and taken against her will to live with relatives in Chechnya. No news has been received from her since. Her friends and human rights activists received information that she was the victim of a so-called "honor killing", according to the "Caucasian Knot" report "Kidnapping of Seda Suleimanova".

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