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The Shali court refused to release Titiyev and began to investigate the case file

03.12.2018

On November 26 and 27 the 24th and 25th days of proceedings on the case of Oyub Titiyev were held in the Shali City Court.

Judge Madina Zainetdinova is overseeing the case. Pyotr Zaikin, Marina Dubrovina and Ilya Novikov serve on the defense team for Titiyev. The prosecution is supported by the prosecutor of the Kurchaloevsky district Dzhabrail Akhmatov and an employee of the Republic’s Prosecutor Office, Milana Baitayeva.

Recall that the head of the Grozny office of the Memorial Human Rights Center, Oyub Titiyev, was detained on January 9, 2018 in Chechnya, allegedly due to the police’s discovery of a bag of cannabis in his car. A criminal case was opened against Titiyev under Part 2 of Art. 228 of the Criminal Code. He denies his guilt. Memorial claims that the criminal case against him is falsified. Oyub is recognized as a political prisoner.

On November 26, judge Zainetdinova refused to release Oyub on personal guarantee. The guarantors were Svetlana Gannushkina, who spoke at the last hearing and is a member of the Board of Memorial Human Rights Center and the Chairman of the Civic Assistance Committee, and Grigory Yavlinsky, who spoke in court on November 26 and is the founder of the Yabloko party.

The judge also denied the petition of the defense team to allow Oyub sit next to his lawyers rather than in a metal cage during the trial.

Then the state prosecutors questioned Titiyev. He tried, unsuccessfully, to call out their contradictions. No new information was found during the interrogation of Baitayeva and Akhmatov.

On November 27, at Novikov’s request, the testimony that Oyub gave during the preliminary investigation was read out (there were a total of three interrogations). Titiyev confirmed this testimony.

The court then turned to the case materials. The defense called a number of the case documents inadmissible, since they were compiled in violation of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

Trial participants reviewed the evidence: a package and an envelope with the drugs allegedly found in Oyub’s car. As defense team lawyer Novikov noted, the tag entry that Titiyev refused to sign was not certified by the witnesses.

According to Titiyev, on several documents there is a forged signature under his name, although the forgery is very similar to his signature. He did not sign these documents.

The lawyers also discovered another problem with the signatures: on some documents, the signatures of the head of the police department for the Kurchaloy district, Rustam Aguev and his deputy, Gekhaev, are identical. Aguyev’s signature is also on page 49 of the case files, but is completely different from the previous ones.

On this day of the trial, 79 out of 260 sheets of the first volume (of a total of six volumes) were read out and commented on.

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