SHALI, Russia: A court in Chechnya sentenced Oyub Titiev, a prominent human rights activist, to four years in a penal settlement on Monday (Mar ...
SHALI, Russia: A court in Chechnya sentenced Oyub Titiev, a prominent human rights activist, to four years in a penal settlement on Monday after finding him guilty of possessing illegal drugs, a charge his supporters say was trumped up.
"They fabricated the criminal case for five months and they fabricated the sentence for eight months," Titiev told reporters after the verdict. According to the sentence, Titiev will not be held in a prison cell, but will be kept under round-the-clock guard and sent to a penal settlement where he will be able to move around freely at some times of day and wear civilian clothes.Oleg Orlov, a board member of Memorial who attended the trial, said he believed the public campaign mounted by Titiev's supporters had helped win a more lenient punishment.
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