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We demand his immediate release and the prosecution of those persons complicit in the fabrication of the criminal case against him.

We demand that he be immediately released, and that the criminal case be the subject of an impartial investigation.

Memorial has concluded that this prosecution is politically-motivated.

We demand that they be released and that those who are responsible for their prosecution be brought to justice.

On January 17, Grozny TV broadcast an evening news story featuring the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov speaking at a meeting with officials from the Chechen Republic Ministry of Internal Affairs and the republican department of the Federal Service of the National Guard Troops.

In the morning of January 9, 2018 members of Human Rights Center Memorial’s office in Grozny (Chechen Republic) came to the office, except the head of it, Oyub Titiev.

Ziyavdin Dapaev and the brothers Sukhrab and Artur Kaltuev have been sentenced to terms in prison for taking part in group readings of works by the Turkish theologian Said Nursi.

Prisich stated at his trial: «After each question I was given an electric shock and told I should think about the answer."

We demand that Adiev, Khafizov, Zaripov, Valiullin, Uzbekov, Saitov, Davletshin and Khevronin be released.

One and half months after the events, information about the armed clashes which took place in September 2008 in Ashgabat is still contradictory and incomplete.