The question "who to whom"

The defense appealed the arrest of the head of the Chechen representative office of the Memorial human rights center Oyub Titiev, against which the case of illegal trafficking in drugs was fabricated. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the lawyer Peter Zaikin.

“I just filed an appeal in which I ask you to cancel the decision on the conclusion of it (Titieva. - Ed.) Under the guard,” Zaikin said.

The lawyer also said that Titiev’s statement was transmitted to the TFR that Marijuana was thrown back to him. “Today I transferred the appropriate statement by Titiev to the Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Chechen Republic. My client asks to initiate the case and bring to justice an unknown employee who threw a package with a drug -containing substance to him. Unknown because this employee did not deign to introduce himself or show a certificate,” Zaiikin said .

Titiev himself at the trial stated that before leaving he laid the rugs washed in the car and was sure that there was nothing under the seat. According to him, the policeman "found" a package when Titiev was standing at the trunk with other traffic police officers. Titiev also stated that the police threatened to initiate affairs against his relatives if he did not confess that the package belongs to him.

Meanwhile, in the TFR, in response to the appeal of the head of the Council for Human Rights, Mikhail Fedotov said that at present there are no grounds for conducting a pre -investigation of Titiev’s detention circumstances. "According to the information submitted by the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Chechen Republic, reports of unlawful actions of the police did not receive against Titiev," the report said. The letter also notes that supervision of the execution of laws by bodies carrying out operational-search activities, inquiry and preliminary investigation are carried out by the prosecutor, and not the Investigative Committee.

Meanwhile, the leading international human rights organizations issued a joint statement with the call to release Titiev, remove all the accusations from him and stop reposing obstacles to the work of human rights defenders in Chechnya, according to the website of the PC "Memorial". The document was signed by representatives of Human Rights Watch, Front Line Defenders, FIDH, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, the World Organization against torture as part of the joint project "Observatory to protect human rights activists" and international human rights partnership.

“Titiev’s arrest unequivocally signals that the Chechen authorities are trying to squeeze the“ memorial ”from the republic, demonstrating the complete neglect of the fate of those people who need protection against violations,” said Human Rights Watch and Central Asia Hugh Williamson. quite obvious risk. "

“The very fact that the Chechen authorities are so rudely fabrication against Titieva about drugs can hardly be surprising taking into account how fiercely and consistently they pursue people who dare to declare violations in Chechnya of human rights,” said the General Secretary of the Norwegian Helsinki Committee Bjorn Engesland. For Moscow, to do everything possible to achieve a proper reaction from it. ”

On Thursday, the Shalinsky City Court of Chechnya arrested Titiev for two months , until March 9. The human rights activist does not plead guilty and insists that the package with a drug threw one of the police officers under the passenger seat of his car. “Today, at a meeting in court, Oyub spoke in detail about the circumstances that indicate the absence of an event of a crime, as well as how a package with a drug -containing substance was in his car,” Zaikin said.

Titiev was charged under Part 2 of Article 228 of the Criminal Code (illegal traffic of drugs on a large scale), which provides for 3 to 10 years of the colony.

On the morning of Tuesday, 60-year-old Titiev was detained by Kadyrovites near Kurchaloy when he went to work in Grozny. The security forces watched the human rights activist, after which they delivered him to the district OMVD. At the same time, the first few hours they denied that the detainee was in the department, although his car was parked by the building.

Later on the same day, it became known that against Titiev , they were opening a case of illegal trafficking in drugs . It is claimed that the activist found a package with 180 grams of marijuana in the car.

On Wednesday , the Commissioner of the Council of Europe on Human Rights Nils Mujniex made a statement in defense of Titiev. He called suspicions of the detainee’s address doubtful. Later on the same day, the US State Department made a similar statement . In Washington, they demanded that the Chechnya authorities immediately free the detainee, and from Moscow, "taking into account quite reasonable concern in connection with the possibility of bad treatment with Mr. Titiev in conclusion," to protect his rights.

On Thursday, it became known that the operatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Kurchaloevsky district of Chechnya are threatened by Titiev’s relatives , trying to get a self -propelled gun from a self -carrier. On Tuesday and Wednesday, police repeatedly threatened his relatives with “serious troubles”. On Wednesday, the Kadyrovites broke into the house of the detainee in a curly. There were no wives and children at home - there were only relatives of Yakub Titiev, the brother of the activist. The security forces said they were looking for Yakub and his 28-year-old son Bekhan. At the same time, the visitor acted very rudely. Women replied that neither Yakub nor Beckhan in the village of now. Then the Kadyrovites said that on Thursday both should come to their district police officer, otherwise their relatives are awaiting trouble. Then the Kadyrovites drove all the women from the house and locked it, and took the keys with them.