The court in Chechnya rejected an appeal to the decision to extend the arrest of human rights activist Oyub Titiev

The Supreme Court of the Chechen Republic rejected the complaints of defense of the head of the Grozny “memorial” Oyub Titiev to extend the arrest and the refusal to initiate the case against the police who detained Titiev. This was reported in the telegram channel "The case of Oyub Titiev. PC Memorial. "

Titiev, who is accused of storing drugs (Article 228 of the Criminal Code), says that the drugs were thrown by the police during the detention. His lawyers submitted an application for a crime committed by police officers, but the criminal case was refused.

At the court hearing, which took place on June 25 and 26, Titiev stated that the audit on the fact of a possible crime was carried out “by 5%”. The prosecutor's office mentions the response of the police who were related to the second detention, and the drugs Titiev, according to him, were thrown during the first. However, the court sided with the prosecutor's office and approved the decision to refuse to initiate the case on the police.

At the same time, the judge refused to introduce the decision of the Human Rights Council under the President (HRC), which states that the test on the application of Titiev was carried out inappropriately. Lawyers of the HRC decided that the investigation did not check the circumstances, the establishment of which could lead to the conclusion about the falsification of the case. For example, the investigator refused to withdraw videos from surveillance cameras, referring to their malfunction. In addition, the investigation was not examined by other camcorders, which were on the buildings neighboring from the road, did not seek eyewitnesses to the police examination by the Titieva car. The HRC also believes that the investigation conducted a check for too long.

In addition, the court rejected the arrest of Titiev before July 9. The human rights activist will remain in custody.

• The head of the Grozny branch of the PC "Memorial" Oyub Titiev was detained on January 9. In the morning he was stopped on the road from the village of Kurchali to the village of May of May of Maired. The police allegedly discovered a drug with drugs in his car and delivered a man to the department. When Titiev complained that the detention was illegal, police officers told him: “If you want by law, it will be by law.” The human rights activist was forced to go in the direction of the village of May of May of May of Maid and again detained - they staged a “legal detention”.
• Two days later, Titiev was arrested , he was accused of storing drugs (Article 228 of the Criminal Code). The human rights activist himself said that drugs were thrown to him.
• On January 19, a search was held in the Grozny office of the organization. During him, the police found cigarette butts that looked like gutted and then filled with something cigarettes. At the same time, none of the employees of the Memorial smokes. Journalists who come to the office do this exclusively on the balcony, folding cigarette butts in paper envelopes, and not in a canal can.

On March 13, the expert of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya came to the conclusion that the two seized cigarettes contained marijuana. On the night of January 17, unknown in masks set fire to the Memorial office in Ingushetia. January 18, the security forces also came to the hostess of the premises in Grozny, which is renting a “memorial”. In the evening of January 22, in Makhachkala, unknown people set fire to the car of the Memorial representative office in Dagestan. The next day, SMS gears entered the organization’s number in Makhachkala: “Next time we’ll wait for your office” ( the spelling of the original is saved ). On March 29, the investigator refused to satisfy the petition of Titiev’s lawyer to make records from surveillance cameras, on which, according to the human rights activist, it should be seen how the police first delivered him to the police department, and then again took him to the road, where they staged a search of the machine and detecting drugs in it. On May 18, it became known that from the material evidence in the case of Titiev, his personal belongings disappeared . In addition, the handle and castle of the human rights activist was 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. On May 24, the investigation reported that there was no reason to consider drugs allegedly discovered in the Titieva car. * May 27 in Chechnya arrested Adam Titiev - nephew Oyub Titiev. According to the official version, when detained, he found 120 grams of marijuana. The court chose a preventive measure in the form of arrest for two months in relation to him. Titiev was placed in the Kurchaloevsky pre -trial detention center.