A court in Chechnya sentenced Oyub Titiev to four years in a penal colony.

The Shali City Court sentenced the head of the Chechen “Memorial” Oyub Titiev to four years.

colony-settlementsThis is reported by “The Case of Oyub Titiev | Human Rights Center "Memorial". Telegram channel Previously, the prosecutor for a human rights activist received four years in a general regime colony and a fine of 100 thousand rubles. The court accepted Titiev's age - he is 61 years old - as a mitigating circumstance.

requested The human rights defender's lawyer insisted that the case was falsified and that the evidence in it was compiled with violations.

• The head of the Grozny branch of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" Oyuba Titieva on January 9 - the police allegedly found a bag of marijuana in his car and took the man to the department. Two days later Titieva. The human rights activist himself claims that the drugs were planted on him. detained , 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. Later, an expert from the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya confirmed that the two seized roll-up cigarettes contained marijuana. However, none of the Memorial employees smoke.went through something and came to the conclusion - on March 29, the investigator granted the request of lawyer Titiev to request recordings from surveillance cameras. According to the human rights activist, they 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 to talk in detail about the violations in this case.

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