Russian prosecutors on March 11 asked a court to sentence a top rights activist in Chechnya to four years in a penal colony, over what campaigners say are trumped-up drug charges.
France 24: Russian prosecutors seek four years for Chechnya activist
A picture taken on July 3, 2018 shows Oyub Titiyev, head of the Chechen section of the rights group Memorial, as he gestures leaving a court building in Grozny.Oyub Titiyev was arrested in January on what campaigners believe are trumped up drug charges in the North Caucasus republic of Chechnya. Titiyev headed the local Grozny office of the award-winning Russian rights organization Memorial.
