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RFE/RL: Chechen activist jailed on ‘fabricated’ drug charge

Published Jan. 11, 2018 at 9:59 pm

Riot policemen block the entrance to Kiev's courthouse on December 13, 2011 by standing in front of the Femida monument, during a mass rally in support of Ukraine's former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. A Kiev court on December 13 resumed hearing Tymoshenko's appeal against her jail term, which she insists was ordered by President Viktor Yanukovych as punishment for daring to oppose his rule. AFP PHOTO/ SERGEI SUPINSKY / AFP PHOTO / SERGEI SUPINSKY

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Human rights activist Oyub Titiyev has been charged with drug possession and ordered jailed for two months in pretrial detention in Chechnya, a lawyer and associates said.

A lawyer for Titiyev, Pyotr Zaikin, told the Interfax news agency that a court in the Chechen city of Shali granted a prosecution request at a custody hearing on January 11.