Urgent Action Update: Chechen Human Rights Defender Jailed (Russian Federation: UA 5.18)
March 20, 2019On 18 March the Shali City Court sentenced Oyub Titiev, head of the Memorial Human Rights Center’s office in Grozny, Chechnya, to four years in penal colony under fabricated drug-related charges. Prior to the sentencing he spent one year and two months behind bars in pre-trial detention.