The nephew of the head of Grozny Memorial was arrested in Chechnya

Adam Titiev, the nephew of the head of the Grozny branch of the Memorial Human Rights Center Oyub Titiev, was arrested in Chechnya. This was reported to the Memorial Human Rights Center, which received information from the Titiev family.

OVD-InfoAccording to the official version, during the arrest Adam Titiev was found with 120 grams of marijuana. The court chose a preventive measure against him in the form of arrest for two months. Titiev was placed in the Kurchaloevsky pre-trial detention center.

Adam Titiev was detained in the village of Kurchaloy. According to relatives, on the night of May 21-22, his acquaintance named Murad, who is on probation for drug possession, came to see him. Murad invited Titiev to visit their mutual friend, convincing him to take a taxi instead of a personal car. When Titiev and Murad were about to leave the house of their mutual friend, Murad again persuaded Titiev to take a taxi, although Titiev wanted to ask his son to pick them up. When Titiev and Murad went outside, they were detained by police officers.

Titiev was taken to the police department in the Kurchaloevsky district, and Murad was released. Titiev's relatives suggest that this was a provocation.

It is noted that Titiev suffers from meningitis, hepatitis C and tuberculosis. In addition, after a car accident, he walks on crutches.

In 2001, Adam Titiev was sentenced to six months in prison, having been found guilty of drug possession (Part 1 of Article 228 of the Criminal Code). In 2011, he was again found guilty under the same article and fined 20 thousand rubles.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said in his statement: “I think that all human rights activists, led by Cherkasov, need to come to Chechnya to find out why he ended up behind bars. Maybe he will be registered as a political prisoner?” This is how the politician commented on the meeting of the head of the Human Rights Center “Memorial” Alexander Cherkasov with French President Emmanuel Macron, at which the human rights activist spoke about the case of Oyub Titiev.

Titiev Jr., Head of the Grozny branch of the Human Rights Center “Memorial” Oyuba Titieva, wrote on the telegram channel on January 9. In the morning he was stopped on the road from the village of Kurchaloy to the village of Mayrtup. Police allegedly found a bag of drugs in his car and took the man to the station. When Titiev complained that the detention was illegal, the police officers told him: “If you want it according to the law, it will be according to the law.” The human rights activist was forced to drive towards the village of Mayrtup and was detained again - a “legal detention” was staged. Titiev was detained - Two days later, he was accused of drug possession (Article 228 of the Criminal Code). The human rights activist himself stated that the drugs were planted on him. arrested - on January 19, the organization's Grozny office was searched. During the investigation, police found cigarette butts that looked like cigarettes that had been gutted and then filled. However, none of Memorial’s employees smokes. Journalists coming to the office do so exclusively on the balcony, putting cigarette butts in paper envelopes, not in. March 13 An expert from the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya that two seized rolled-up cigarettes contained marijuana.passed something through an ashtray

came to the conclusion - On the night of January 17, unknown masked persons visited the Memorial office in Ingushetia. set on fire - on January 18, the owner of the premises in Grozny, which is rented by Memorial, was also from security forces. came - On the evening of January 22 in Makhachkala, unknown people came from the Memorial representative office in Dagestan. The next day, to the number of an organization in Makhachkala: “Next Time, Together with You, We’ll Set Your Office on Fire” (). set on fire received SMS threats original spelling preserved - on March 29, the investigator granted the request of Titiev’s lawyer to request recordings from surveillance cameras, which, according to the human rights activist, should show how the police first took him to the police department, and then took him back to the road, where they staged a search of the car and the discovery of drugs in it. refused - on May 18 it became known that from the material evidence in the Titiev case were his personal belongings. In addition, the handle and lock of the human rights activist's car were damaged - the door opened without a key. A video recorder and expensive equipment that tracks the route and location of the car disappeared from the car. disappeared - on May 24, the investigation found no reason to consider the drugs allegedly found in Titiev’s car to have been planted. reported