In the office of "Memorial" in Grozny was a search

The police searched the office of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" in Grozny, RBC reports with reference to the member of the board of the "Memorial" Oleg Orlov.

Investigative actions were carried out in the fabricated case of drugs, instituted against the head of the Chechen "memorial" Oyub Titiev. Orlov came to Grozny and found the end of the search.

The security forces seized an ashtray with cigarette butts previously abandoned by the correspondent of Novaya Gazeta Elena Milashina. At the same time, according to the protocol of the search, an ashtray in the form of a jar cut in half from the Adrenaline Energy drink - journalists of Novye, claim that they did not see such an item in the office on Monday and Tuesday, and on Wednesday and Thursday the premises were closed. As follows from the protocol, along with the ashtray, the uninterrupted Cigarettes "Parliament" were seized, which, in appearance, were freed from tobacco and filled with something else. Milashin does not smoke cigarettes of such a brand.

The day before, the police officers came to the woman who rents the premises. Before that, they visited her on Tuesday. “For the first time, they said: think to whom you are handing over, and demanded the documents on what basis you hand over,” Orlov said. During the second visit, the security forces demanded the keys to the housekeeper, explaining that they would visit the office, "when they consider it necessary."

The 60-year-old Titiev was detained by the Kadyrovites on January 9 . Two days later, the judge of the Shalinsky City Court of Chechnya Khamzat Ibragimov arrested the human rights activist for two months . Politzeku was charged with part 2 of Article 228 of the Criminal Code (illegal overalls of drugs on a large scale), which provides for 3 to 10 years in a colony. The activist claims 180 grams of marijuana in the car. As it turned out at the trial of the arrest of the detainee, operatives of the threat of Mandzhiks and Magomads were involved in the factory of the case against him.

The human rights activist refuses to admit guilt and insists that drugs were thrown into his car during inspection. It is kept in the temporary detention of the city of Shali in the isolator of the city for conducting certain investigative actions that should take place on Friday. In the insulator, he is refused medical care. After January 21, Titiev should be transferred to Grozny SIZO-1.

Last week, relatives of the human rights activist left Chechnya due to threats.

On Tuesday, Titiev wrote a statement about the factory of the case against him in the name of President Vladimir Putin, the head of the TFR Alexander Bastrykin and the director of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov. "On 01.01.2018, I was detained by the employees of the Kurchaloevsky ATS, and a narcotic substance was tossed into my car. A criminal case was fabricated against me. The evidence of my guilt was completely tucked. I did not admit and do not admit. I want to bring it to you if I some kind plead guilty of the Acts that I am incriminated, it will mean that I was forced to admit myself The guilty path of physical influence or blackmail, ”the document says.