Lawyer Timur Idalov was arrested for two months on charges of threatening a prosecutor

The Presnensky District Court of Moscow arrested lawyer Timur Idalov until June 10 on charges of threatening the prosecutor. This is what SOTA is about.

reports According to the telegram channel and, the case was initiated under the article on the threat of violence against a representative of the authorities (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code).

“112” “Caucasian Knot” The reason for initiating the case was the phrase said to the prosecutor during the trial in the Nikulinsky District Court of Moscow on October 3: “What are you, Commissioner Cattani? So they shot him.” Idalov himself notes that this phrase was spoken out of emotion and is in no way a threat. He is convinced that the case against him is an attempt by the security forces to take revenge for his professional activities.

RusNews that a case against the lawyer could have been initiated due to the fact that Idalov compiled a protocol for interviewing the ex-commander of the Wagner PMC Andrei Medvedev: he The Insider about cases of extrajudicial executions by PMC fighters.

adds the search at Idalov’s place on April 12. He said that the security forces behaved rudely: they pushed the lawyer himself, causing him to fall, and the police officers raised their voices at his wife and child. As part of the search, equipment was seized, including the phone of the lawyer’s wife.

passed - Previously, Timur Idalov collaborated with Lev Ponomarev’s project “For Human Rights”, which in 2019 was recognized as a “foreign agent”. The lawyer specialized in cases related to terrorism. In 2018, he was sentenced to 12 days under the article on driving a car without a license (Part 2 of Article 12.7 of the Administrative Code). This happened before the court hearing - then the lawyer represented the interests of the accused in the case of preparing a terrorist attack. According to Idalov, it was not he who was driving, but his personal driver. liquidated arrested