The European Parliament demanded immediately to free the Memorial Titiev

The European parliament demanded that the Russian authorities immediately release the head of the Grozny branch of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" Oyub Titiev. The resolution is published on the website of the b.

The deputies "urgently call on the Russian authorities to ensure the full respect of human rights and legal rights Mr. Titiev, including access to lawyer and medical care, physical immunity and dignity, as well as protection from judicial persecution, criminalization and arbitrary arrest."

In addition, the resolution contains the requirement to “put an end to the suppression of freedom of speech in Chechnya and ensure effective guarantees of security for victims and witnesses of abuse”, also conduct “independent, objective and thorough investigations of regret in Chechnya”.

On January 9, the 60-year-old Titiev was detained by the Kadyrovites and was arrested two days later. 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. According to the plot of the case, Titiev was in 180 grams of marijuana in the car.

The human rights activist refuses to plead guilty and insists that drugs were thrown into his car during the inspection of the operatives of the threat of the Kurchaloevsky Ministry of Internal Affairs of Mandzhikov and Magomades.

On January 10, the Council of Europe called on the Russian authorities to free Titiev . The US State Department made a similar statement.

Meanwhile, the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov called Titiev a drug addict . "The UN, even the State Department from America came out due to the fact that one person was detained from the Kurchaloevsky district," said the head of Chechnya.

On Wednesday, by order of the deputy prosecutor of Chechnya, the case of Titiev was transferred from the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Kurchaloevsky district to the regional headquarters of the Investigative Committee . The memorial previously insisted on another decision. On January 24, NPOs demanded to transfer the case to the Central Glavk of the Ministry of Internal Affairs . The human rights activists substantiated their demand by the fact that Chechnya is "a territory where there has long been neither a law nor justice." On February 1, the Federal Ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova made a different proposal - to entrust the investigation of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the North Caucasus Federal District.