Titiev’s arrest was extended until May 9

The judge of the Staropromyslovsky district court of the Grozny Vakha Mintsaev extended the chairman of the Chechen branch of Memorial Oyub Titiev, against whom the case of drug storage was fabricated, the term of detention in the pre -trial detention center for two months - until May 9. It is reported by "New Gazeta".

Politsek’s lawyer Peter Zaikin insisted on the release of his client under guarantee, previously declared by two presidential candidates - Grigory Yavlinsky and Ksenia Sobchak. However, Mintsaev took the side of the investigator and the prosecutor.

In September 2017, the same judge sentenced the two young Grozenets - 21 -year -old Magomed Taramov and 19 -year -old Jamalaya Tazbiev - by five years of strict regime of false accusations of intention to leave for Syria and join the Islamic State. In the appeal, the terms were reduced to both political prisoners to three years .

As reported by the Caucasian Knot, Yavlinsky personally arrived at the hearing about the extension of Titiev’s arrest to confirm his guarantee. The candidate was accompanied by his proxies - the chairman of the Civil Assistance Committee Svetlana Gannushkina and the former editor -in -chief of the "new" Dmitry Muratov. Also at the meeting came the head of the program "Memorial" "hot spots" Oleg Orlov.

In addition, many relatives of Titiev and more than a dozen journalists came to the court. To place the entire audience, additional benches were brought into the hall.

Grigory Yavlinsky welcomes Oyub Titiev. Photo by PC "Memorial"

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.

Initially, the OMVD in the Kurchaloevsky district of Chechnya was engaged in the case. In early February, the investigation was transferred to the Chechen Directorate of the TFR .

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

Meanwhile, 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," the head of Chechnya noted.

The Politzek was defended by three lawyers: two from Central Russia - Zaikin and Ilya Novikov - and one local - Sultan Telhigov (in a number of media is mentioned as Aslan Telhigov). On February 1, it became known that Telhigov left the case due to pressure and left Chechnya in an unknown direction. It was reported that the lawyer is looking for the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the leadership of the Law Chamber of Chechnya demanded that all his members inform about the whereabouts and phones of his colleague.

On February 9, information appeared that in the village of Kurchal Kadyrovites are preparing to demolish Titiev’s house , as well as at home 36 of his neighbors.

In early March, it turned out that the Prosecutor General’s Office announced to the lawful detention of the human rights activist and the fabrication of the case against him. In turn, the Hudermmes interdistent of the Investigative Committee refused to initiate the case of falsification of evidence against Titiev.