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During the trial on August 28, 2018, four witnesses of the prosecution were questioned , officers of the Russian Federation’s Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Kurchaloevsky District of the Chechen Republic.

On August 27, 2018 the trial against the head of the Chechen branch of the Memorial, Oyub Titiev, continued in the Shalinsky District Court.

We call for his immediate release. 

Three more witnesses of the prosecution interrogated. 

An expert and a GATS inspector interrogated. The judge petitions to get the call log from the number of the latter. 

«We do not stop women and do not impose fines to the elderly, this is the mindset of the Chechen police,« — one of the interrogated witnesses said today.

Investigator in the Kurchaloevskij police station Nurid Salamov questioned. He was the head of the investigative group on Oyub Titiev's case during the first period of pre-trial investigation. 

Memorial Human Rights Centre calls for their immediate release.

Nine witnesses of prosection interrogated.

Mikhail Savostin, a Stavropol region resident of oppositionist views, is currently on remand on charges of possessing drugs.

Six more witnesses of prosecution - police officers - interrogated. They no nothing on the matter of the case. 

His confession had been made under torture, says Shablii.

Summary of main events

On the first day the prosecution presented the court witnesses which did not have the slightest idea of the circumstances of the case.

Mikhail Tsakunov has been charged with committing an offence under Article 318, Section 2, of the Russian Criminal Code (using violence, dangerous for life or health, against a public official).

We demand that the charges against Vilitkevich are immediately dropped.

There are 158 names in the lists that we are publishing today.

Memorial demands his immediate release.

We call for his immediate release.

In 2013 Nariman Memedeminov, a citizen of Ukraine, posted reports on the web about events organised in Crimea by Hizb ut-Tahrir, an organisation at that time legal in Ukraine, but banned in the Russian Federation.