The arrest of Oyub Titiev has provoked international outcry. Source: Memorial Human Rights Center.
This article is part of our partnership with OVD-Info, an NGO that monitors politically-motivated arrests in Russia.
In Chechnya, Oyub Titiev, 60, who heads the regional office of the Memorial Human Rights Centre, is being prosecuted. On the morning of 9 January, Titiev was detained by people wearing the uniform of traffic police officers. A friend of the human rights defender who witnessed the arrest from his car, said he had wanted to stop to speak with Titiev, but Titiev indicated he should drive past. Titiev’s lawyers were not allowed to see him for several hours. That evening Titiev was charged with possessing drugs (Article 228). He categorically denies the accusation.
