"Memorial" recognized the human rights activist Titiev as political prisoner

The Human Rights Center "Memorial" recognized the leader of the Grozny representative offices of Oyub Titiev, against whom the drug case was fabricated. This was reported on the organization’s website.

"The circumstances of the persecution allow us to believe that Oyub Titiev was deprived of freedom in order to terminate its non -violent public activity aimed at protecting human rights and fundamental freedoms. In this case, imprisonment was applied in violation of the right to fair trial, other rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the European Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Basic Fertime, and was founded The falsification of evidence of a sane crime in the absence of his event, ”the statement of the Memorial said.

“The last few months Titiev and other employees of the Memorial in Chechnya have worked for a great resonance to the case of 27 detained and then disappeared (presumably executed) residents of the republic,” the statement said. At the same time, representatives of the Chechen authorities repeatedly "extremely negatively" spoke about human rights defenders. In December, the chairman of the Chechnya parliament Magomed Daudov openly called for their persecution.

After the arrest of Titiev, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, called independent human rights defenders "enemies of the people" who are engaged in "bumps" and discredit their people. Kadyrov said that in Chechnya they have no place and that their work in the republic will not work, and their relatives are also responsible for their acts. Later, in an interview with Dailystorm, the head of Chechnya said that Titiev allegedly smoked marijuana, and called his son a drug addict.

“In relation to Titiev, persecution was launched on republican television: he was called the representative of the“ fifth column ”, who had relatives among members of illegal armed groups, and hinted that he uses drugs,” the memorial notes.

"If we recall the case of Ruslan Kutaev , who was convicted after he held a round table by the anniversary of the Vainakhs deportation, the case of the Caucasian Knot correspondent Zhalaudi Geriev , other cases of convicts formally for drugs, we can say that this is a kind of tradition in Chechnya," said the chairman of the Council of PC "Memorial Cherkasov. Factory ".

Titiev was sharply negative about bad habits in general, and in drug use in particular. The human rights activist knew well that in Chechnya there is a campaign for mass detention of real and imaginary drug users, accompanied with gross violations of human rights.

“These circumstances are accused of storing drugs by implausible. The themselves the actions of the police allow us to talk about the obvious tossing of a package with drugs and the subsequent factory of the case,” Titieva repeatedly bowed to self -support during the “conversations”, which police officers led with him within seven hours that passed between actual detention and admission The lawyer allows us to talk about gross procedural violations that make all evidence that are obtained during these illegal actions. ”

The "memorial" requires the immediate liberation of Titiev and the prosecution of persons involved in the factory of his criminal case.

The 60-year-old Titiev was detained by the Kadyrovites on January 9 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 February 7, by order of the deputy prosecutor of Chechnya, the Titiev case 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.